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THE SUKRITASAMKIRTANA OF ARISTMAA.
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to Dovapattana or Prabhasa (IX. 70-71). He states also that Vastupala was many days' on Girner, and that in Devapattans he worshipped, besides Siva-Somanátha, 30 the Jaina Tirthamkats Chandraprabhu. Probably this contradiction is explained, in that two visits to Devapattana took place. Arisim ha hints at this when he says the pilgrims went to Vâmanasthall on their returnjourney. Vâmanasthalt or Vanthit lies about nine miles south-west of Girnar and on the direct road to Devapattana. Whoever travels by Vanthli on the return from the Girnar cannot readily take any other way afterwards towards the mainland of Gnjarât than that which leads from Devapattana first along the south and then along the east coast of the peninsula. This seems to have been in early times the ordinary route for caravans and pilgrimages, 31
Vastupala's buildings and pious institutions.
The eleventh and last Sarga begins with the statement, that Vastupala, after he was made lord of the town of Stambhatirtha by Virad havala, began to build temples (kirtanáni) which resembled embodiments of his fame on earth, and in verses 2-34 forty-three buildings, restorations and institutions of different kinds are enumerated. This list is much more modest than those which occur in the later Prabandhas of Rajasekbara and Jinaharsha. It contrasts also advantageously with the absurd boastfulness of the Girnêr inscriptions, in which it is said 32 that Vastupala and Tejah pala caused new places of religion (dharmasthánání), i. e., temples, asylums, abodes for the performance of perpetual vows, tanks and so on, to the number of ten millions (kolisah), and also caused very many restorations to be made. Arisimha gives the following details :
I. In Apahilapuri or Anhilvad-Patan :
1. The restoration of the temple of Panchâsara-Parávanátha which Vadaraja (p. 481 above) had caused to be built (S. XI. 2). With this agrees Jinabarsha in the Vastupálacharita VII. 66, whore it is added that the building took place when Vastupala visited Pâtan after a battle against the Muhammadans at Abû, which he won by the help of Dhârâvarsha of Chandravati. Muhammadan authors mention nothing of attacks upon Gujarât in the first half of the 13th century. At the same time it is possible that during or after Shamsuddin Altamsh's expedition against Ranthambor, A. D. 1226,34 parts of the victorious army may have come as far as Abû and attempted an invasion of Gujarat. If Jinaharsha's note be correct, we may perhaps accept that the restoration of the temple in Anbilvad took place in the year A. D. 1226 or 1227.
II. - In Stambatirtha or Cambay:
2. The erection of a golden, i, e., a gilded, flag-staff and knob on the temple of Bhi in oss (S. XI. 3). The Vastupálacharita (IV, 720) gives the same note, and has, instead of the vague ketu (literally banner"), the plainer expression dhrajadanda.
3. The erection of an Uttanapata before Bhatçêditya and of a golden wreath on his head (S. XI. 4). The Vastupalacharita, IV. 719, speaks of an Uttanapada (?) in the temple of Bhattaditya. The technical meaning of Uttanapatta is unknown to me.
4. The excavation of a well in the temple-grove (pájanavana) called Vahaka of Bhattárks (S. XI. 5).
5. The erection of a mandaya or vestibule overlaid with stucco (sudhama dhura) before the temple of the sun-god called Bakula (s. XI. 6). The Vastupdlacharita (IV. 721) speaks of rangamandapa or painted vestibule before the temple of Bakolasvâmideve.
* The worship of Biva, unfitting for Jaina, is also admitted by Jinabaraha - V. Char. VI. 635.
In the Vastup dlacharita, VL. 516 f, the way is more minutely desoribed and the stations between Batrunjaya and Girakr are: (1) TAladhvaja or TAIAA, (2) Kotinfri or KodinkT, (8) Devapattana, and (6) Vamanathali or Vanthalt.
n Arch. Rep. Western India, Vol. II. p. 170, 1. 5, transcription. # Elliot, History of India, Vol. II. p. 324.
