Comprehensive History of Jainism Volume II

SR No.: 002003
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Aseem Kumar Chaterjee
Publisher: Firma KLM Pvt Ltd
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 414
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, History, & Religion
File Size: 19 MB

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tank, built an asylum for Jain monks and also erected a pump-room ( prapa ).2 48 The.excavation of the tank has also been mentioned by both Someśvara'4 and Jinaharşa 2-5. That indefatigable minister also built a large tank at a place called Arkapālita or Ankaväliya, which Bühler identifies with the village of the same name, that lies on the old road from Dholka to Satruñjaya2 46.
Arisimha refers to the fact that Vastupāla built on Girnar, two temples, dedicated to Pārśva and Rşabha247. These two temples are also mentioned in the Girnar inscriptions 248, which, however, mention a few other Jain temples, built by him on that sacred mountain. It has been argued that Arisimha wrote his poem, at a time, when the other temples of Girnar, were not yet built. According to the Girnar inscription dated, V.S. 1288, Vastupāla had built a temple of Mahāvira and several other beautiful sculptures including those of Sarasvati and a few Jinas and also his ancestors 24). The author of the Vividhatirthakalpaa 50 also gives a vivid description of the building activities of Vastu pāla and his brother Tejaḥpāla on Urja. yanta or Girnar. It is clear from Jinaprabha's account that the temple of Pārsva, built by Vastupala on Urjayanta, was named after his father Āsarāja. That writer also gives us the information that the Adinātha temple of Urjayanta, built by Vastupāla, was called Saturăjayāvatāra. Vastupala built a temple of Pārśva 251 at a place called Stambhana (probably Thamana near Umreth ). Jinaharşa, a 52 however, says that Vastupāla had deposited 1000 dināras in the trea. sury of Pārsvanātha temple of this place, for the purpose of the restoration and not that he himself had erected it.
At Darbhāvati or Dabhoi, Vastupāla, according to Arisimha, 268 placed gold capitals on the temple of Śiva Vaidyanātha, because the old ones were carried off by the king of Mälava ; he also erected there a statue of the Sungod. According to Jinaharşa264, however, these works were done by Tejahpāla. According to Arisinha, Vastupala