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(1) The opening stanzas of argfartfor
- श्रीमान् माननरेंद्र जो विजयते श्रीश्यामद्वाहो नृपः ॥ ४ ॥ तद्विद्भिः परिशीलितानि बहुशस्तन्त्राणि संख्यावताम् पूर्वेषां प्रविलोक्य सारमखिलं ज्ञात्वैव संक्षेपतः । शाहस्यास्य नृपाज्ञया बुधवरः श्रीमान् गुरुः शकरो रम्यं वास्तुशिरोमणि वितनुते विद्वज्जनप्रीतये ॥ ५ ॥
( 2 ) also the colophon-- इति श्रीमन् महाराजाधिराजश्यामखागुरुशंकर कृतौ वास्तुशिरोमणी etc.
This king
ag was the 54th ancestor of the present king of Tehri, and flourished in 722 to 782 A. D. He came to the throne of the Tehri State in about 753 A. D. It was this are at whose behest his गुरु शंकर composed वास्तुशिरोमणि. Thus the आदिशंकराचार्य can safely be placed in the latter half of the 8th century.
(1) सूत्र 74 -- बाप कूपतडागादिनिर्णय :- गंगा गंगेति कुंडवाराणसी-This occurs in agg, Scholars have not opinion as regards the age of this विष्णुमहापुराण. Vaidya who has tried to prove that this gun is not earlier than the ninth century A. D. ( P. 265 Journal of the Bhand. O. R. Inst. Vol. XVIII 1937).
come to any definite I have followed C. V.
author who reigned in Dhara from 1018 to rufaagar-
1060 A. D., and
. and
both have as of art in common, but . has this subject a little more elaborated than 4. Even if it is argued that both the authors have drawn from one and the same source, a. has only ushered the subject abruptly and without any preliminary exposition. He has merely touched the fringe of the subject of 6s only (Vide page 147. V 60-80 16th), auf has gone a little deeper than A. though a true account cannot be given owing to the inaccurate and mutilated condition of its mss. (Vide . . 68).
The author of the . evinces a rather unpleasant tendency towards Jainism and Buddhism as is apparent from his appellation for these sects (afe's ear, page 5.) In 4. their divinities have not obtained an honourable seat in the various types of temples dealt with.
It is evident the preachings of ar had secured a firm foothold in the country and though Jainism was trying its level best to achieve ascendency in the State, it had not succeeded in its object upto the latter half of the 11th century in Dhara, Malwa etc. It was in the time of Kumarapala Solanki (1143-1174A. D.) that Jain preachers secured their objective and one finds that 4. depicts a picture of this sect in a far more tolerant spirit as a result of a pious attitude towards Jainism; its divinities are found raised to a level as high as, though not higher than the Trimurti of the Hindu Pantheon. In the temples of different types they have come to occupy a position as exalted as ब्रह्मा, विष्णु, महेश, a etc; they were admitted in temples of superior types and are assigned seats along with ब्रह्मा, विष्णु etc.
