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patient and lavish labour in the year following, Vastupala built a triple temple dedicated to Neminatha on Mount Girnar and another temple dedicated to the same Tırthankara on Mount Shatrunjaya.
Vastupala was a poet of no mean order His poetic name was Vasantapala Someshvara testifies to his great literary attainments by calling him 'the godson of the goddess of learning' Merutunga pays his tribute to his poetic genius by describing him as a 'great poet.' His famous poem, the Naranarayananda, which describes the friendship of Arjuna and Krishna, their rambles on Mount Girnar and the consequent abduction of Subhadra by Arjuna is a composition of great literary merit The genius of the poet shines forth with all its brilliancy and lustre as he depicts with consummate skill the great works of nature and art and the various passions of the human mind. The new poem was hailed by the poetic world with great delight and won for him the praise and admira
तत्रादपतीर्थ स्योहा लल्लो महणसिंहभू । पीथडस्त्वितरस्याभूद्वपवहृच्चंडसिंहज ॥४॥ कुमारपालभूपालचौलुक्यकुलचन्द्रमा ।
श्रीवीरचैत्यमस्योचे शिखरे निरमीमपत् ॥ ५० ॥ ya waaraa HATH II (fatto ) P. R IV. 93
2 Repairs which are being carried out by the Jains community at the Abu temples have been pronounced as clumsy by a critic
