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JAIN MANTRAVADA AND CAITYAVASIS: TEMPLE-BUILDING ACTIVITY
strength of soul adorned the country of Gujarat with temples. Of them the chief were Naga, Vinda, Mammața, Durga, Acharya Agnisarma and the sixth Vatesvara. Vatesvara got a beautiful Jain temple constructed at Akasavapra* seeing which even an angry man would be calmed. Another pupil of his named Tattvacārya was possessed of the lustre of austerity and character, with which he destroyed sin and darkness of ignorance-true to his name like the Sun; and his pupil (Udyotanasuri) bearing the appellation of Dakṣinyacinha has composed this story of Kuvalaymälä being inspired by the sight of Hridevi. "Acharya Virabhadra and Haribhadra were his Vidyagurus the former in respect of sacred scriptures and the latter in respect of logic. From a coin found by Cunningham bearing words 'Sri Mahārāja Hariguptasya' on the obverse and a Kalasa with flowers i.e. Kumbhakalasa on the reverse, and from the fact that such a Kalasa is unmistakably the sign of Jainism, it appears that he must be a Jain. As the coin is supposed to belong to the sixth century of the Vikrama era he must probably be the same as Hariguptācārya mentioned in the colophon quoted above and a contemporary of the famous Toramaņa of the Hūņas. The readers will note that the temple building activity was a special characteristic of Caityavasis and that it was thus carried on in the 6th and 7th centuries of the Vikrama era.
*This is modern 'Vadnagar alias Anandpur in Gujarat' according to Śri Jinavijaya but Amarkot alias Ambarkota' on the border of Sind according to Sri Kalyanavijaya. + According to Acaradinakara pp. 235 ff. Śri, Hri, Dhṛti, Kirti, Buddhi and Lakṣmi are the six deities who are invoked to bring prosperity to the worshipper. Of the well-known six objects of Mantric worship they are worshipped for Pusți: "iltधृतयः कीर्तिर्बुद्धिर्लक्ष्मीश्च षण्महादेव्यः । पौष्टिकसमये संघस्य वांछितं पूरयन्तु मुदा ||" See loc. cit. for Dhyánas of Hridevi and the other five deities. ह्रीदेवी यथा- "धूम्राङ्गयष्टिरसिखेट कवीजपुरवीणाविभूषितकराधृतरक्तवस्त्रा । हृीर्घोरवारणविघातनवाहनाढया पुष्टीच पौष्टिकवियो विदधातु नित्यम् ॥" So, Śri Bhagavatisutra, IX Śataka, 11 Uddeśa, 430 Sūtra records a present of the idols of these six deities on the occasion of marriage.
