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e SUKRITASAMKIRTANA of ARISIMHA
· Vastupāla, in time year 77 (V. S. 1277), attained the dignity of a Samghadhipati or head of the congregation by the grace of the illustrious over-god of the gods, who, in consequence of the mighty working of the festive pilgrimage undertaken to Satrunjaya, Ujjayanta (Girnār ) and other shrines, revealed himself." Someśvara, on the other hand, dedicates the whole of the last Sarga of his poem to the pilgrimage, and his , description of it agrees on the whole with that given by Arisimha. Yet there are the following differences. The halt in Kāsahrada is not mentioned. It is said on the other hand (Kirt. IX. 19,20 ), that the route followed by the minister could be traced by means of the restored old temples of the Jinas and the freshly dug tanks, as also that the pilgrims offered homage in all the temples to which the procession came. On Satrumjaya, Vastupāla stopped according to Someśvara (Kirt. IX. 36 ) only two or three days.' In spite of this, it is said immediately before (IX. 30-36 ) that he presented a flag of yellow-white stuff to the temple of Adinātha, that he built two temples to Neminātha and Pārsvanātha, and had a large tank dug. It is not doubtful that the last two notes refer to a later time. Further on, in the course of his report, Someśvara (IX. 66-69), places the visit:to Girnār before that to Devapattana or Prabhāsa (IX. 70-71). He states also that Vastupāla was 'many days' on Girnār, and that in Devapațţaņa he worshipped, besides Siya-Somanātha, the Jaina Tirthařkara Chandraprabhu. Probably this contradiction is explained, in that two visits to Devapațțaņa took place. Arisimha hints at this when he says the pilgrims went to Vāmanasthali on their return-journey. Vāmanasthali or Vanthli lies about nine miles south-west of Girnăr and on the direct road to Devapațţaņa. Whoever travels by Vanthli on the return from the Girnār cannot readily take any other way afterwards towards the mainland of Gujarāt than that which leads from Devapaţtaņa first along the south and then along the east coast of the peninsula. This seems to have been in early times the ordinary route for caravans and pilgrimages.
VASTUPĀLA'S BUILDINGS AND PIOUS INSTITUTIONS The eleventh and last Sarga begins with the statement, that Vastupāla, after he was made lord of the town of Stambhatirtha by Viradhavala, began to build temples (Kirtanāni) which resembled embodiments of his fame on earth, and in verses 2-34 forty-three buildings, restorations and institutions of different kinds are enumerated. This list is much more modest than those which occur in the later Prabandhas of Rajasekhara and Jinaharsha. It contrasts also advantageously with the absurd boastfulness of the Girnār inscriptions, in which it is said that Vastupāla and Tejaḥpāla caused new places of religion (Dharmasthānāni ), i.e., temples, asylums, abodes for the performance of perpetual vows, tanks and so on, to the number of ten millions (koțiśah ), and also caused very many restorations to be made. Arisimha gives the following details ; I. - In Anahilapuri or Anhilväd-Pāțan :
1. The restoration of the temple of Pañcāsara-Pārsvanātha which Vanarāja
.. . 1. The worship of Siva, unfitting for a Jaina, is also admitted by Jinaharsha-V. Char. VI. 535
2 in the Vastupalacharita, VI. 515 ff., the way is more minutely described and the stations between Satrunjaya and Girnăr are: (1) Tāladhvaja or Talājā, (2) Kotināri of Kodinār, (3) Devapattana, and (4) Vāmanasthali.
3. Arch. Rep. Western India, Vol. II p. 170, 1.5, transcription. 11
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