Structural Temples of Gujarat

SR No.: 006728
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kantilal F Sompura
Publisher: Gujarat University Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 868
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 31 MB

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The Structural Temples of Gujarat
erected an Indramaṇḍapa before Risabhadeva on Mt. Satrunjaya with the temples of Parsvanatha and Neminatha on two sides; and a torana on the temple of Satrunjaya, a lake in Padaliptanagara; ( Palitana) and Akrapalita-grama. Vastupala according to this prasasti restored the temples of Nabhiya (Rṣabha), Neminatha and Stambhaneśa (Pārsśva). He is also said to have built many other temples, wells, tanks, resting houses for yatis, gardens, and places for drinking water and supplied golden staffs to many temples. He is also said to have consecrated the images of Parsvanatha and Mahavira in Sakunikavihāra at Broach and supplied twenty five golden staffs to the devakulikās (small shrines) in the city.222
According to the Sukṛitakirtikallolini written by Udayaprabha Sūri, the Guru of Vastupala and Tejapala. it was after listening to the lectures of Vijayasenasuri that the two brothers began to build a series of religious edifices-Indramaṇḍapa with temples of Stambhana Parsvanatha, and Neminatha on Girnar; images of their ancestors by the sides of the temple of Adinatha on Satrunjaya. He built at Dholka a temple on the model of the temple at Satrunjaya and the Pancasara temple at Anhilapāṭaka. He also built the temple of Aśvāvatāra and consecrated there in the image of Muni Suvṛata. He also restored the temple of Pārsvanatha at Stambhana (Skamna near Umareth) and restored the nineteen golden capitals taken by Subhatavarmana, King of Malava, from the temple of Vaidyanatha at Dabhoi.223 The Sukritasankirtana of Arisimha which was composed about V. S. 1285 also gives a long list of temples and other public buildings erected by Vastupala. With the exception of few minor details Arsimha's list224 agrees with those of the Vastupala Tejapala-prasasti and Sukṛitakirti Kallolini. From all these sources it becomes evident that Vastupala and TeJapāla
222. VTP. vv. 45-69.
223. SKK. vv. 157-176.
224. Bühler: 'Arisimha', Sitzungberichte, Bd. CXIX, (1889) also ASWI, Vol. II. pp. 169 ff.