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X. - On Mount Arbuda or AbQ:
43. The building of a temple of Malladeva (by whom may be meant Mallideva or Mallinatha) for the benefit of his brother Malladeva (S. XI. 34). In the V. Char. VIII. 76, it is stated that the temple for the benefit of Maladeva was built on Satrumjaya, Since only one temple of Neminátha, built by Tejahpala, is found on Åbû, and its position makes it improbable that a second ever existed, the mistake may be on Arisimha's side.
In this list of Vastupâla's buildings the restorations of Brahman temples, as well as of the decoration of such buildings, bave a special interest. They prove, as does also his worship of SivaSomanatha in Derapattans (p. 491 above), that he was no exclusive Jaina, but was rather lax in his religious views, and thereby confirm some hints in the later Prabandhas on this point (see Kirtikaumudi, p. xxii.). The reason for his lax view may have lain partly, as Professor A. V, Kathvate says, in the passage quoted, in his familiar intercourse with the high priest Someávara and other Brahman savants, but may partly be due to his position at the Brâhman court of Dholka. The latter is hinted at by Jinabarsha also. He adds apologetically, on mentioning the worship of Siva-Somanatha in Devapattana, that Vastupala performed this act to please his king. He also says further on, that the minister, at the coramand of his master,' prepared a mundamáld, or skull-chain' or 'tiara,' adorned with rubies, for Siva. These well-authenticated pieces of information have their significance in the judgment of cases where something similar is stated of court Jainas, as, for instance, of Hemachandra, in works less worthy of credit.
The second interesting point in the catalogue is the mention of only two temples on Girnar. This shews plainly that the great threefold temple, which now forms the principal ornament of the mountain, was not yet finished, perhaps not yet begun. The date of the six inscriptions, identical in their first parts, in the Vastupalavibara, is Vikrama-Samvat 1288, Phålguna sudi 10, which, according to Jacobi's calculation, Indian Antiquary, Vol. XVII. p. 151 f., corresponds with 3rd March A. D. 1282. The Sukrita sankirtana must therefore have been written before that time, and we must not put its authorship earlier than Vikrama-Samvat 1285. From a comparison of the list of Vastu pâla's buildings in the Kirtikaumudi it is further clear that the latter work was written a little earlier than the Suksitsasinkirtana. For in the Kittikaumudi the buildings on Satrunjaya are mentioned, but not the two temples on Girnar.
Notos on vastupals's warliko doods.
While Arisimba, true to his plan, sings only of the sukritas - the pious deeds of Vastupala, Amarapandita endeavours to acquaint posterity also with the heroic deeds of his patron. He ovidently knows of only one, the victory of Vastupala over Satgråmasimba, the son of Sindhuraja, who seems to have been a petty vassal-prince or village chief in Vatakupa near Cambay, and over his ally Sankba. He says, I. 44: “They call him a Jaina ; but the illustrious minister Vastupala is devoted also to Siva. He washed the master who wears the form of air (i. e., goes naked) with the water of shining fame wbich he took from Bankha." Further, VIII. 46: "Thy sword, illustrious Vastopala, beautiful in rising and brandishing, valiant in deed, defeated in the world that Samgramasinha." And X. 45: “Thy glory, O Vastupala, which shines by thy victory over Sindhuraja, is like the moon in the sky, since the spot in it is certainly the face of Sindharkja, which was blackened by his deep shame."
41 7. Char. VI. 656-588:
Sri-Viradhavaladh iadutohtohahatau 1 Jomaromer tadanarcha mantri dndvidh Archanaian 585 Norondrldofato mantat somandthamahefitus I
Xanilyakhachith musdam alam ayam allrayat 11 538 il 438oo Ueber das Leben des Jains-Monches, Homachandra, 8.27 1.
