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twenty-five thousand Jain images, spent 18 crore and ninety-six lacs on Satrunjaya, twelve crore and eighty lacs on Ujjayanta or Giranara, twelve crore and fifty lacs on Arbuda or Mt. Abu and erected 984 Poshadhashālās, 500 Smavasaranas, 700 alms-houses, etc.71
According to the Vastupalacharita, Vastupala and Tejhapala built 1313 new Jain temples, repaired 3300 old Jain temples, made 1, 25,000 Jain idols and 100,000 Sivalingas, built 3200 nonJain temples, 984 inns, 701 bermitages, 700 alms-houses, 30 forts, 84 lakes, 464 step-wells, 100 bhandaras, 400 water-rooms, 80 toranas and gave annuities to 1,000 hermits and 4024 workers.22
Quoting another authority, the same writer gives the following account of the pious and religious deeds of Vastupala and Tejahpāla :
Vastupala and Tejahpala built 700 almshouses, 64 step-wells, hundreds of Jain monasteries and nunneries, many hermitages and 500 pathaśālās or schools. Every year they worshipped the Jain Sangha thrice. For the worship of the
(21) Rajasekhara, Chaturvimsatiprabandha, p. 138; Vastupala, Naranārāyanānanda, p. V.
(22) Vastupalacharita, p. p. 305-6
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