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POLITICAL HISTORY OF N. INDIA FROM JAIN SOURCES
could not honour the Brāhmaṇas by his charity."1
It is said that both the brothers spent in all, three hundred crores and fourteen lakhs in public works.
As a devout Jain Vastupāla made several pilgrimages during the tenure of his ministership. One of them he made in V.E. 1277 and eleven others between V.E. 1283 and 1293. It seems that between V.E. 1278 and 1293 he constructed all the public works. The poet, Someśvara, in the Girnar inscription of V.E. 1288, comparing Vastupāla first with Karma regarding generosity, says: "After Bhoja died and Muñja became a king in the heaven, if there was any man who removed the distress of the afflicted he was Vastupāla.3
Death of Viradhavala: Vīradhavala must have died sometime before V.E. 1295, for a colophon of a Jain MS. Yogasāra informs us that Vīsaladeva, his son, was Mahamandalesvara Rānaka Vīsaladeva, 4 which would mean he died before that date. It is said in the Prabandha-cintämani that Vīradhavala,was fatally wounded in the battle of Pancagrāma and could not survive that wound. The same authority further states that when Vīradhavala died, owing to his excessive popularity, 120 followers elected to burn themselves with his corpse, after that, Tejahpāla set guards on the cemetery and prevented that eager desire of the people. The Puratanaprabandha-sangraha states that he embraced a religious death having dived himself in a pool at the holy place Matoda.? The Prabandha-kośa, on the other hand, refers to Viradhavala to have been seized by an incurable disease and died thereof.8 The Rajávali-kostaka composed in V.E. 1587 states that Vīradhavala died in V.E. 1294.9
i Canto IV, V. 40: rad H ATHTHAT I TT!
Saitsta : der TAF#: l 2 GOS., VII, Introduction, p. xvi. 3 HIG., Pt. III, p. 16, V. 4. 97 LOTO TTSI: T
द्विश्वोपकृतिव्रतं चरति यत्कर्णेन चीर्णं पुरा।
Atat HH5 ta etc. 4 SJGM., XVIII, p. 121. 5 Ibid., I, p. 104.
6 Ibid., I, p. 104: 772 afheL THET face acTHIRTIITETUT TETT få tai शतेन सहगमनं चक्रे।
? Ibid., VI, p. 66. 8 Ibid., VI, p. 124 : sitetetaatsfahrten z FCA 9 GMRI., P. 390.
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