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1304 respectively. Out of the bulky contemporaneous literature in praise of their achievement, it is particularly the 'Vastupāla-Tejapāla-Prasasti’S4 that interests us here. Its author is Jayasimha Sūri, pupil of Virasüriss, and Ācārya of the Muni Suvrata Temple of Broach. The Praśasti is believed to have originally been incised on a stone slab in the Sakunikā-vihāra Temple which Ambada had reerected, but is now only preserved in a manuscript. In this Praśasti, Jayasimha Sūri relates how he once requested Tejapāla on a visit of the latter to Broach, to replace the bamboo staffs on the 25 chapels ('devakulika', st. 67 ) of the Muni Suvrata Temple of the 'Mandaleśvara Ambada' by golden ones, so as to match their golden pinnacles ('kalyāna-kumbha', st. 67 ) obviously those which Sāntu had donated, and Devabhadra Sūri mentioned. With the consent and assistance of his elder brother Vastupāla, Tejapāla had complied with this request of the Ācārya ( st. 64-69). The Praśasti also extolls Vastupäla for having installed images of Pārsvanātha and Mahāvīra in Ambada's Sakunikā-vihāra Temple ( st. 63 ).
The Praśasti is not dated, nor does it mention the dates of those events. The circumstances of the poet are not known either, except the fact that he composed another work in honour of the two brothers, viz., the drama 'Hammira-mada-mardana'56, the oldest manuscript of which is dated V.S. 1286, and which is stated to have been acted at Cambay at the order of Vastupāla's son Jaitrasimhas. It celebrates the victory of the two brothers over Amīra Sikāra or Sultan Samsud-dunyā, who had tried invade Gujarat. As Vastupāla entered the services of Vīradhavalā, for whom he fought, in V.S. 1276, the drama must have been composed between these two dates. The fact that the Praśasti mentions Vastupāla's nomination as a Minister, but not his above victory, indicates that it must have been written before the drama. The presentation of golden flag-staffs to Śakunikā-vihāra must, therefore, have happened between V.S. 1276 and 1286.
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