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temple at Girnar, Indra-mandapa and six other temples at Satrunjaya, Adinātha temple at Dholaka and Astăpada-pråsåda at Prabhāsa. His brother Tejahpāla built the Asarāja-vihāras at Patan and Junagadh, Neminātha temple at Dholaka, Adinātha temple at Prabhāsa and grand temples at Khambhat and Dabhpi for the merit of his mother. He also built temples at Tharad, Karpavati, Godbra, Pavagadh and Nayasari, besides the famous Neminātha temple on Mount Abu. But few works of these great builders now survive. The Vastupāla-vihāra at Girnar (A.D. 1231) with its lateral güdha-mandapa harbouring Sametaśikhara and Aştāpada is indeed majestic in plan and external elevation, though many of its roofs are lost and the ceilings of the mand apas are restorations of the fifteenth century.
The famous marble temple of Neminātha, built in 1231 by Tejahpāla on Mount Abu and known as Lūņa-vasahi (plates 190 to 194), is indeed much better preserved. Like the Vimala-vasahi, its sanctum and gud ha-mand apa are plain and have phānsanā-roofs. The serpentine vandana-mälikäs of the nrtya-mandapa and its ceiling with the exquisite padma-sila are most impressive. The two khattakas in the trika are also gorgeous and show baroque at its best.
The Sambhavanātha temple at Kumbharia, also built in 1231, is relatively simple and bereft of the enclosing dcva-kulikās. The temple comprises a sanctum, a gūdha-mand apa with literal porches and sabhamand apa, enclosed in a prākåra. The lattice-decoration on its śikhara and the doorway of the gūdha-mandapa showing motifs of sikharas and mand apas as on the Tejahpāla temple of Abu betrays its date and style.
The marble Jaina shrine at Sarotra, comprising a sanctum, a gūdhamandapa and fifty-two surrounding deva-kulikās, is an outstanding example of a well-planned Jaina temple of the first half of the thirteenth century
The philanthropic traditions set up by Vastupāla and Tejahpāla were maintained in the generation by Jagadušā of Bhadravati and Pethada of Mandu. In addition to renovating numerous Jaina and Brāhmapical shrines Jagadusă built the temple of Rsabha at Dhanka, a temple with twenty-four deva-kulikās at Wadhavan, a temple on the Satrunjaya hill and a temple with fifty-two deva-kulikās at Sevadi (1250-70).
Pethada of Mandu is credited with the erection of eighty-four Jaina temples in important Jaina centres including Satrunjaya, Prabhāsa, Dholaka and Salaksanapura around 1264.
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