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and would also explain Hemacandra's silence re the restoration.
It is thus probable that it was the Sakunikā-vihāra after its restoration through Ambaḍa, which Santu decorated with golden pinnacles, which are again mentioned at the occasion of the presentation of golden flag-staffs by Tejapāla about a century later.
From Ambada's restoration onward, Prabhavakacarita, Vividha-tirtha-kalpa, and Prabandha-cintāmaņi have nothing further to say re Sakunikā-vihāra. The next reference to the sacred place, this time under the name of "Asvāvabodha", is found in the Upadesamālāvṛtti "Doghatti", which its author Ratnaprabha Sūri (Bṛhad Gaccha) states to have been composed in V. S. 12381 in that very temple.
Then, Mahendra Suri (Vidhipakṣiya Gaccha) mentions the Tirtha in his "A stottari-tirthamālā-stavana" (st. 77-80), some time after V. S. 12872. This stavana forms part of the Vidhipaksa-Avasyaka Liturgy, and contains both the names "Asvavabodha" and "Samaliyāvihāra" with references to the legends.
With Mahendra Sūri, we have approached the period of the brothers Vastupala and Tejapāla, the Śrāvaka Ministers of the Vaghela Rājā Viradhavala of Dholka (vassal of the Solanki King Bhima II of Gujarat, who ruled from 1234 to 1298). Both are famous not only as statesmen and generals, but particularly as builders and restorers of Jaina temples, and as patrons of Jaina poets and saints. They belonged to the Porvāḍ clan and died in V. S. 1296 and 1304 respectively. Out
(1) M. D. Desai, 1. 1, para. 483.
(2) Loc. cit.; vide also Pt. Lalacandra Gandhi, Tejapalano Vijaya, Bhavnagar, V. S. 1991, Introduction, p. 10 f.
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