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seems likely from the fact that the name ‘Amadatta' stands side by side with that of Vāgbhața, Ambada's elder brother in both the above poems!
Ambada, who is otherwise also known to have built the famous stairs leading upto Mount Girnar ( for which epigraphic evidence is available ), would thus have joined his brother in beautifying Satruñjaya too, besides restoring Sakunikā-vihāra, which latter enterprise would have been completed prior to V.S. 1168. This would go well with Somaprabha Sūri's account, and would also explain Hemacandra's silence re the restoration.
It is thus probable that it was the sakunikā-vihāra after its restoration through Ambada, which Sāntu 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, Prabhāvaka-carita, Vividha-tīrtha-kalpa, and Prabandha-cintämaņi have nothing further to say re Sakunikā-vihāra. The next reference to the sacred place, this time under the name of 'Aśvāvabodha', is found in the Upadeśamālā-vrtti 'Doghatti', which its author Ratnaprabha Sūri (Bșhad Gaccha ) states to have been composed in V.S. 123852 in that very temple.
Then, Mahendra Sūri ( Vidhipaksiya Gaccha) mentions the Tīrtha in his 'Aştottari-tīrthamālā-stavana' ( st. 77-80 ), some time after V.S. 128753. This stavana forms part of the VidhipaksaĀvaśyaka Liturgy, and contains both the names ‘Aśvāvabodha' and 'Samaliyā-vihāra' with references to the legends.
With Mahendra Sūri, we have approached the period of the brothers Vastupāla and Tejapāla, the Śrāvaka Ministers of the Vāghela Rājā Vīradhavala 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 Porvāda clan and died in V.S. 1296 and
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