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Introduction
CLXXXV him to be a great builder of architectural works so much so that even to-day to the popular mind, Jayasimha is the builder of almost every Hindu architectural remain of some antiquity. As in his war, so in his building - ventures, tradition associates Barbaraka with him as his chief assistant.
There is a verse + quoted in the P. C., which tells us that Jayasimha did FOUR great things which no body could do. These four things are:-A Mahālaya (great temple referring to Rudra Mahālaya) a Mahayatrā – (great pilgrimage to Someșvara on foot) a Mahāsaras ( - great lake referring to the Sahasralinga lake) and a Mahāsthāna ( a great place ). We cannot definitely say what is referred to by Mahāsthāna; probably it referes to the great Dānaşālā built near the lake Sahasralinga - a sort of free boarding and lodging place for students.
The fifteenth canto of the D. K. is devoted to the description of these things.
Hemachandra tells us that in Siddhapura on the bank of the river Sarasvatī, which turns there to the east, Jayasimha built Rudra - Mahālaya ( v. 15). Now we know that Rudra - Mahālaya was first built by Mūlarāja, and that much damage was done to it by Barbaraka. So Jayasimha must have repaired or rebuilt the whole temple in a style befitting the conqueror of Ujjayinī where was the famous temple of Mahākāla. It is possible to imagine the magnificence of the great Rudra - Mahālaya even from its ruins.
“The gigantic fragments” says Dr. Burgess, + महालयो महायात्रा महास्थानं महासरः ।
यत्कृतं सिद्धराजेन क्रियते तन्न केनचित् ॥ 24
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