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Kavyanusasara building of the temple, that Aliga himself built a Chaturmukha-temple known as Rājavihāra at his own expense in Siddhapura, and that the king being pleased with him granted him several villages in V. S. 1198 = A. D. 1142. If Jayasimha commenced the rebuilding of Rudra - Mahālaya after his conquest of Mālava in 1192-A. D. 1136, we can say, it took him six years to complete the work-not too long a time, looking to the gigantic work.+
The D. K. tells us in the next verse ( 16 ) that Jayasimha built at the same place a temple of the last Arhat, and put certain Brāhmaṇas to look after it. This means that Jayasimha built a temple of Mahāvīra in Siddhapura. This is the first reference in the D. K. - to something specifically Jaina. In the next verse ( 17 ) we are told that the king properly honoured the Arhata Samgha. It is difficult to reconcile this contemporary reference with the P. C.'s account that flags were removed from the Jaina temples.
After this Hemachandra describes the second great thing that Jayasimha did - his pilgrimage to Somanātha on foot ( v. 18-36). The description of the pilgrimage is interesting from many points of view, but we cannot go into its details here. * In Deva pattana Jayasimha was received by Ganda who was in charge
+ Sáliga who repaired the temple was a brother to the famous Samarāsā. They were contemporaries of Allauddin Khilaji; both the brothers were important and influential personages in the time of Islamic rule in Aşahillapura.
+ We learn from verse 26 that the names of the three of Jayasimha's queens were Kuntī, Avantī and Kurū. Probably these are not their proper names, but their names after the provinces of their birth.
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