Book Title: Comparative and Critical Study of Mantrashastra
Author(s): Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri, K V Abhayankar
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab
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activities he found time to copy manuscripts himself (see the Ms. of Dharmabhyudaya Kávya dated 1290 Vikrama era in the handwriting of Vastupāla preserved in Sri Santinātha Bhandara at Cambay). He was a great patron of literature and rewarded poets and men of letters so liberally that he earned the title of Laghu Bhoja or II Bhoja. For his scholarship he was compared to the famous Hemacandrācārya. His munificence was without distinction of caste and creed. He spent large sums in building Jain and Saiva temples and even mosques for Muhammedans and libraries, rest-houses, alm-houses, wells, step-wells, tanks, lakes etc. for the public.
He established three big libraries or Pustakabhandāras at the huge cost of Rs. 18 crores. It is however the Delwārā temples, of which Lunigavasabi was built by Tejapāla the brother of Vastupāla at a cost of crores of rupees, which have earned for the brothers lasting fame.
Vastupāla was born of Ašvarāja and Kumāradevī, the latter being the daughter of Dandapati Abhu. The exact date of his birth is not known but it must be circa 1230 as it is reported that he performed a pilgrimage to Satruñjaya with his father in 1249 Vikrama era. He had two wives Lalitādevi and Vejaladevī of whom the former being very clever was frequently consulted by Vastupāla even on intricate state-problems. He had a son Jaitrasimha by Lalitādevi who was appointed the governor of Cambay in 1279 during the lifetime of Vastupala. He died on Magha Sud 5th 1296 Vikrama era. He had earned 24 titles such as Sarasvati-Kanthabharaṇa i.e. the neck-ornament of Sarasvati etc. His ideals may be summed up in a single verse of his own:
"Tamarat frafa: Fifa: far: सदवृत्तानां गुणगणकथा दोषवादे च मौनम् । सर्वस्यापि प्रियहितवचो भावना चात्मतत्त्वे सम्पद्यन्तां मम भवभवे यावदाप्तोऽपवर्ग:।।
APPENDIX 21 This hymn is by Sri Jinesvarasūri. We think it must be by the 2nd Jinesvarasūri the pupil of Sri Jinpatisūri and not the famous
