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chiefly with public welfare. Setting up of many water-houses, construction of many rest-houses and excavation of numerous wells and tanks, which cost about three hundred crores and fourteen lakhs, were possible only due to the eudæmonistic efforts and altruistic zeal of Vastupāla and Tejahpāla, the minister of Vīradhavala whom Bälacandra-Sūri has immortalised in the pages of the Vasanta-vilāsa-mahākavya.2
There must have been officers to look after all these works, but we do not find any particular reference to them in the Jain sources of our period.
i See supra, p. 255 ff. 2 GOS., VII, See Introduction to Vasanta-vilāsa-mahākāvya.
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