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Professor G. Bühler's critical study the first was built for the welfare of Vastupāla's first wife Lalitădevi, and the other for the welfare of the second, Saukhyalatā or Sokhukā.
30. The erection of a pristhapatta, i.e., of a tablet, behind the statue of Jina (Adinātha.?) of gold and precious stones, which seemed to give the statue a halo (bhamandala ) ($. XI. 23 ).
31. The raising of a golden toraña (S. XI. 24 )." V. - In the neighbourhood of Padaliptapura or Palitānā :: 32. The excavation of a large tank (sarah, S. XI. 26 ), mentioned also by Someśvara (Kirtikaumudi, IX. 36 ) and by Jinaharsha (V. Char. VI. 677). In the latter passage it is added, that the tank lay near Vägbhațapura, the place built by Kumārapāla's minister Vägbhața, and bore the name of Lalităsaraḥ in honour of Vastupāla's first wife.
33. The erection of an asylum (upāśraya ) for Jaina monks ($. XI. Ž7).
34. Of a pump-room (prapā, s. XI. 28). VI. - In the village of Arkapalita or Ankaväliya :
35. The digging of a tank (tadāga, s. XI. 29 ). Jinaharsha (V, Char. VI. 690 ) adds, that Vastupāla had this tank dug for his own welfare. According to the same author, he erected in the same place a pump-room for the benefit of his mother, a sattra or alms-house for the benefit of both his parents, and further, a temple of Siva (purabhido devasya ), and a rest-house for travellers. There are several villages in Kāțhiāvād with the name of Ankavāliya. Probably the one meant here is that which lies eastward from Bhimnāth, 71°59'E. long, and 22°15'N. lat. (Trigonometrical Survey Map, Kāțh. Ser. No. 14) on the river Lilka. There is a large tank, and the village lies on the old road from Dholkā to Satrumjaya: VII. - On Mount Ujjayanta or Girnār :
36-37. The erection of two temples of Pārsvanātha of Stambhana and of Ādi-, nātha of Satrumjaya (S. XI. 30). These two temples are mentioned in the Girnar inscriptions (Arch. Rep. W. 1. Vol. II. p. 170,1.6) first among the buildings erected there. Jinaharsha (V. Char. VI. 695 ) speaks only of the temple of Adinātha. VIII. - In Stambhanaa :
38. The restoration of the temple of Pārsvanātha which was adorned with statues of Adinātha and Neminātha (S. XI. 31 ), Jinaharsha says (V. Char. VI. 518) that Vastupāla deposited 1,000 dināras in the treasury of Pārsvanātha for the purpose of the restoration, not that he himself had it done.
39-40. The erection of two pump-rooms (prapā) near the temple of Pārsvar natha (S. XI, 32 ).
1 In verse 25 the author says that he would be able to describe all the buildings erected on the Satrumjaya, if the creator had given him a place in the firmament like the teacher of the gods (the planet Jupiter )
2 This place lay, as is often mentioned in the Prabandhas, on the river Sedhi or Shedhi, and thus in the eastern part of the present collectorate of Khedā. Peterson's identification of it with Stambhatirtha or Cambay (Third Report, p. 26) is untenable, for the Shedhi is more than 30 miles distant from Cambay, and Stambhana is named along with Stambhatirtha"in the Girnar inscriptions. (Stambhana is an old name for Thămna on the Sedhi, 10 miles south-west from Thåsră in Anand tāluka, lat. 22° 43'N., long. 73° 9°E.-J. B. ]
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