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which proclaims to have been written in V.S. 1290 by Udayaprabha's pupil Jinabhadra of the Nāgendra Gaccha for Vastupāla's son, the Minister Jayatasimha ( = Jaitrasimha ), likewise contains an account of the donation of those flag-staffs by Tejapāla, but states them to have been 72 instead of 25 in number, and the name of the Ācārya who inspired the same, Räsilla Sūri instead of Jayasimha Sūri59. As this reference is chronologically not far remote from the event, it has a certain weight. From the fact that the uncommon name 'Rāsilla' is characteristic of the Vāyada Gaccha“, it may, therefore, be assumed that the former is another name of Jayasimha Sūri, and that this Ācārya belonged to the Vāyada Gaccha, just like the poet Jinadatta ( author of the 'Viveka-vilāsa ), and his two famous disciples Amarasimha and Arisimha, all of whom were likewise protégés of Vastupāla and Tejapāla.
The Purātana-prabandha-sangraha also mentions a donation of 12 villages made to Sakunikā-vihāra by Vastupāla at the time when Bālahaṁsa Sūri (not identified so far )'was the ‘adhişthāyaka' of the ‘matha' of that temple, enjoying a 'rājya' of 700 horses 61 !
Jinaharşa Gani in his considerably later 'Vastupāla-carita' (VII. st. 97-103 ) likewise relates the episode 62 of the flag-staffs presented to the Minister Ambada's Temple' at Broach. Re their number, he follows the Purātana-prabandha-sangraha, but omits the name of the dignitary to whom he simply refers as 'Vāyada-gaņādhipa', i.e., 'head of the Vāyada Gaccha' (VII, st. 99 ). This corroborates our assumption of Jayasimha Sūri belonging to that Gaccha. Jinaharsa then adds that that Tejapāla also installed a metal 'snātrapratimă' (i.e., an image that can be used for the abhişeka rite at a Pūjā ceremony ) in front of Muni Suvrata's plaster status, donated a ‘snātra-pitha' with a golden image, and provided flower gardens for the supply of ever fresh flowers for offerings, spending one crore of ‘drammas'. According to the same work, Vastupāla too donated to that temple a metal image, which he caused to be consecrated by Jagaccandra Sūri ( the celebrated founder of the Tapā Gaccha and
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