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pitality with great wonder, is stated to liave sarcastically declared that it was nat Śrimila' but Bbilla mala' [vide PC, pp. 35-36). Malaraja, the founder of the Cauluk ya dynasty of Gujarat a, too, is stated to have hailed from this place. 28.15.
43 सहस्रलिङ्ग
---the great lake neac Pitana, constructed (during
1134-1135 A.D.) by the great king Siddhara ja Ja ya simha-one of the great things accomplished by him (Vide PC, p. 75). It was constructed on the site of the Durlabhasaras which was constructed by his ancestor Durlabharaja (1010-1022 A.D.). 1008 Siva-tcmples, 108 Deri -temples and a temple of the ten incarnations of Lord Visna adorned the banks of this lake. In its centre was situated an islet upon which was crected a temple of Rudreśvara, which has now been turned into a mosque. The beauty of this lotus-covercu, swan-teaming lake was further cnhanced by a towering snow-white column of viclory, of which there are no traces left. To judge from the taunt of the Banaras king to SiddhaTija Jayasimha's ambassador at his court about the use of the water of this lake by the populace of Anahillapallan a though it was * Siva-nirmalya', this tank must have served the purpose of water supply for the citizens of Pata na. The Sukrlasankirtlana (II. v. 35 ) calls
it Siddhasaras, 18.1; 19.4-5, 6; 24.2; 25.21; 27.18. --probably the same as Saradhara near Rajakota in Saurastra. This historical place was a capital town in mcdiacval times. 18.15, 17.
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Saurīstr 2. 18.15; 27.11.
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- Sante as Devapaitana. The phallus of Somanálha is regarded as one of the twelve Jyotirlingas of Lord Siva. The reference here is not to the town of that name but to the temple itself. The temple was re-built and a fresh phallus was installed at the pious hands of Dr. Rajendra Prasa da,
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