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part of the temple was completed and the image of Neminátha set up in it, the good news was sent to the ministers at Dholaki. Tejahpāla, then, went to Abu with Anupamadevi and worshipped the image of Neminātha. '
In Samvat 1287 or A. D. 1231, when the temple was complete, Vastupāla made a pilgrimage to Mt. Abu in the company of Yašovira, an artist. The latter told Vastupāla that though Sobbanadeva was a good architect, he had committed several mistakes. In the painted vestibule, the broad passage between the two statues was altogether inappropriate in a temple of a Tirthankara and was forbidden by the treatises on architecture; the aroh over the door that led into the inner cell of the temple, disturbed the worship of the Jinesvara on account of the two lions on it; the hastisala ( elephant room ) adorned with the statues of the anoestors was fatal to the long life of the men who built the temple; and the images of Jina on the pillars in the temple were likely to be defiled ? Those small defects pointed out by Yasovira, however.
(1) Rajasekhara, Chaturvimsatiprabandha,p.p. 129–39
(2) Rajasekhara, Loc. cit., p. 132. Merutunga, Prabandhachintāmani, p.p. 259-60. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
