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(V. 60.) For the religions merit of that son and that wife the said Têjahpala built this temple of the holy Nômináths on the mountain) Arbuda.
(V. 61.) The minister Têjahpåla, a moon on earth, erected the temple of the lord Nêmi, which shines by lines of stones as white as conch-shells (and) is resplendent like the moon and jasmine flowers, & lofty hall (mandapa) in front (of it), fifty-two shrines for the best of the Jinas on the sides of it, and a seat (balánaka) in the front.
(V. 62.) The son of the illustrious Chapdapa was Chandaprasåda; from him (was born) Soma; his son was Aśvaraja by name; his sons, gifted with pare hearts, who are rising clouds to the garden of the doctrine of Jina, are the men called the illustrious Lupiga, the minister Malladhva and the illustrious Vastupala, together with TôjabpÅla.
(V. 63.) The son of the illustrious excellent minister Vastapála is he named the illustrious Jaitrasimha, and Tējahpâla's son, whose intelligence is renowned, is Lava yasimha by name. The statues of these ten (men), mounted on the shoulders of female elephants, will for a long time shine like those of the guardians of the quarters approaching to see the Jina.
(V. 64.) Behind the statues placed on the backs of female elephants, this wise man called Tējahpala, the matchless friend of the Chaulukya king Viradhavala, the younger brother of the illustrious Vastupala, caused to be made here ten images of those persons mentioned above) together with the wives on khattakas of spotless stone.
(V. 65.) By the side of Vastupala, on whom all people subsist, the successful Tdjahp&la appears as a mango tree laden with fruit by the side of a lake affording a livelihood to all creatures.
(V. 66.) Of the uninterrupted series of religious establishments, such as tanks, wells, fountains, groves, ponds, temples, alms-houses, and so on, which were either newly constructed or repaired by that pair of brothers in every town and village, on every road and mountain-top, one does not even know the number; it is at best but the earth that knows it.
(V. 67) The sage that would be able to count the expirations and inspirations of Sambhu or to calculate the openings and closings of the eyes of the saint called Markanda, might also set himself to reokon up this multitude of records of benefactions' drawn up by the two ministers, provided he abandon other ocoupations.
(V. 68.) May the fame of Aśvaraja, whose descendants understand how to do good and to help, perpetually spread in all directions !
(V. 69.) There was a sage (suri) called Mahendra, the preceptor of the family adorned by Chandapa, the crest-jewel of the fortune of the Nagendra gachchha, who had acquired his greatness without effort. After him (came) the illustrious Santisuri, of admirable good conduct. After bim (there was) a pair, Ananda(suri) and Amarasuri, whose splendour was as bright as that of the rising moon and the rising) sun.
(V. 70. After them there was the illustrious Haribhadrasuri, the purifier from sin, who was a new cloud to the park of the holy Jaina doctrine. After him there was this famous excellent sage Vijayasêna, an irreproachable physician for the diseases of those who are intoxicated with the liquor of learning.
(V. 21.) The receptacle of the benedictions of that teacher is the sage (odri) Udayaprabha. His beautiful verses are brilliant like pearls from the ocean of his intelligence.
(V. 72.) This religious building and the founder of this religious building-may these two rise as long as this (mountain) Arbuda rises !
1(1.. Markaņdêys, who according to the Mahabharata (VII. 183, 43) was many thousand years old, though he looked only twenty-five.-E. H.]
The term sukrit-dwukirtana seems to have about the same meaning - dharmaathana-prafasti occurring in . 73.
