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them, to say the least. Most likely the pinnacles36 which Devabhadra Sūri saw, were those which Sāntu had presented.
We return now to the account of Prabhāvaka-carita? According to the latter, the old wooden building of Sakunikā-vihāra lasted till the time of Kumārapāla3, when it was in a state of utter decay, brought about by white ants and monsoon-moisture ( according to Jinaharsa Gaņi, by the floods of the Narbadā). In that condition, it was seen by Kumārapāla's brave General, the “Rāņaka Ambaďa', Governor of Lāța and other parts of the kingdom, who had won the title of 'Rājasamhāra' by his victory over the Kadamba King Mallikārjuna of the Konkaņa. He was the son of the Śrāvaka Minister Udayana of Śrīmāla clan, and younger brother of Kumārapāla's later Minister Bāhada or Vāgbhata, and a good Jaina himself. He undertook the next restoration of Sakunikā-vihāra 11,85,686 years after Muni Suvrata's Nirvāṇa, i.e., in V.S. 121640 ( according to later sources, he did so in fulfilment of the last wish of his dying father, whose death" occurred between V.S. 1205 and 1208 ). He caused the whole old wood structure to be dismantled, and rebuilt the temple in stone from its very foundations. It was only after a hard struggle with the treacherous river-soil, which once buried the foundation, and with it, a batch of masons, that Ambada succeeded in erecting a firm building, according to the Prabandha-cintāman142. It took a year to complete it, according to the Purātana-prabandhasangraha^3. The Prabhāvaka-carita states that it measured 18 'hasta' ( 'hastāstādaśakaṁ caityaṁ' ), i.e., 8 square-yards, which measurement refers of course, to the innermost sanctum, not counting the several entrance-halls ( 'ranga-mandapa', 'dvāra-mandapa', etc. ), nor the surrounding chapels which the Prabhāvaka-carita itself refers to ( 'aneka-devaveśmādhyam”), and which later literature mentions under the name of 'deva-kulikās’44. According to Jinaharşa Gaņi, the temple contained a 'lepyamaya' (plaster ) statue of Muni Suvrata“. All the sources concur in stating that the consecration-ceremony was performed by the Rāja-guru Hemacandra Sūri
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