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Introduction
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of the city. The king worships Siva who appears to him in person and blesses him Be thou now Siddhirät by Suvarna-siddhi through which you have removed the indebtedness of the earth "-v. 50. This is the explanation of the word Siddhiraja given by Hemachandra.
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The king requests the god to grant him a son, but Sambhu touching his hairy head tells him your brother Tribhuvanapala's son Kumārapāla will be king after you and disappears (v. 54-56).
From Somanatha, Jayasimha goes to Raivataka or Girinar mountain and there pays his respects to Nemi the twenty-second Jaina Tīrthankara (vs. 6388). Then he granted Simhapura and other villages to Brahmaņas (v. 97-98) and returned to his capital (v. 100). Then comes the description of the sacrifices he performed and we are told that whenever doubts arose as to certain rituals, Jayasimha himself removed them (108). That showed how learned he was (vs. 104-113)! After these Ishta - Karmans comes the great Purta - the construction of the Great Lake ( 114 ). This was the third great thing that he did which others can never do.
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Near the banks of the lake, he built Satraṣālas for Brāhmaṇas (115). These Satraṣālas were congested with students coming there for food (116). On the bank of the lake he built 1008 temples of Sambhu (117) and 108 temples of goddesses. Near the same lake, he built a temple of Daṣāvatāra (that is a temple containing images of the ten incarnations of Vishnu, v. 119). There also he built mathas (according to the commentator, residencies for students and others) to please professors of different departments of learning. (11),
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