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Girnar, and twelve crores and fiftythree lacs on Abu, and that the total sum spent by them in public works amounted in all to three hundred crores and fourteen lacs.
In his Naranārāyaṇānanda, Vastupala himself says that he has built innumerable temples for the spiritual merit of his parents, sons and other relatives. That this is not an empty boast can be seen by the various structures Tejahpala raised in honour of his relations at Abu. From the Vastupala-Tejahpala Prasasti, which seems to have been inscribed on a slab of stone in the Sakunikavihara in order to commemorate the gifts of Tejahpala to the temple, we learn that Vastupala erected an Indramandapa before Lord Rishabha on Mt. Satrunjaya with the temples of Parsvanatha and Neminatha on two sides ; and a toraņa for the temple at Satrunjaya, a lake in Padalipatanagari (Palitana) and Arkapalitagrama. Vastupala, according to this Prasasti restored the temple of Nabheya, Neminatha, and Stambhanesa. He is also said to have built many other temples, wells, tanks, resting houses for yatis, gardens, and places for drinking water and supplied golden staffs to many temples. Vastupala is also said to have consecrated the images of Parsvanatha and Vira in the Sakunikavihara at Broach and supplied twentyfive golden staffs to the devakulikās (small shrineds) in the city.
According to the Sukstakirtikallolini written by Udayaprabha Suri, the guru of Vastupala and Tejahpala, it was after listening to the lectures of Vijayasena Suri that the two brothers began to build a series of religious edifices-- Indramaņdapa with temples of Stambhana, Parsyanatha and Neminatha on Girnar ; images of their ancestors by the sides of the temple of Adinatha on Satrunjaya. Behind the image of Adinatha, Vastupala erected a prśthapuța of gold, an image of Mahavira at Satyapura and excavated a tank at Palitana. He built at Dholka a temple on the model of the temple at Satrunjaya and the Pancasara temple at Anahilapataka. He also built the temple of Asvavatara and consecrated therein the image of Muni Suvrata and excavated another tank in the village of Ankavilaya which was given over by royal order to the temple on Satrunajaya. He also built many pauşadhaśālās and restored the temple of Parsvanatha at Stambhana (Skamma near Umreth) and restored the nineteen golden capitals taken by Subhatavaraman, king of Malava, from the temple of Vaidyanatha at Dabhoi. At Dabhoi he installed images of Viradhavala and his wife Jayataladevi, as well as those of his (Vastupala's) brothers, Malladeva and Tejahpala and also of himself.
The Sukstasamkirtana of Arisimha which was composed about V.S. 1285 also gives a long list of temples and other public buildings
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