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In Khadiralaya, he built the temples of Adinatha and Mahavira In Jhavat, he built a temple of Neminatha and in Sankhapura, one of Santinatha. In fine, the two brothers built 80 gardens, water-rooms, lakes, temples, alms-houses and sunk so many wells and step-wells that it is impossible to count them."
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The details of Arisimha given above deserve credence as they come from a contemporary whose main object was to enumerate the pious and religious deeds of Vastupala Some of the details of the later chroniclers are confimed by the earlier and contemporary chroniclers, but as to the rest, it is difficult to say anything with certainty. From the works of the contemporary as well as later chroniclers, we can, however, say with certainty that the two brothers (Vastupala and Tejahpala) were great donors, that they built many Jain temples and a few non-Jain temples, set up many images of Tirthankaras, adorned Jain temples with gold staffs and knobs, built many monasteries, sunk many wells and step-wells, excavated tanks, built water-rooms, constructed arches, maintained libraries, erected inns and repaired many Jain temples. To-day, we see only a few of the works of the two
(24) Ibid., PP, 306-7.
