The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.546

v2.c31.546

(15) *Abu stone-inscription (ii).*—Engraved on a white slab built into a niche in the corridor of the shrine of Neminātha on Mt. Abu which is generally known as the ‘temple of Vastupāla and Tejaḥpāla.’ It contains 33 lines. In the opening lines (1-5) we are told that in (V.) *Saṁvat* 1287 (A.D. 1230) the Caulukya king Bh(īmadeva) was ruling at Aṇahilapāṭaka, and while the *Mahā-maṇḍaleśvara-rājakula*-Somasimha, born in the family of the illustrious Dhūmarāja, who had sprung from the sacrificial fire-altar of the holy Vasiṣṭha was reigning victoriously, Tejaḥpāla caused to be made in the village of Deulavāḍā² on the top of Mt. Arbuda, the temple of the holy Neminātha, called Lūṇasiṁha-*vasahikā*, for the increase of the glory and merit of his wife Anupamadevī, and his son Lūṇasiṁha. Tejaḥpāla³ is described as ‘conducting the whole business of the seal of the *Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara-rāṇaka*-Vīradhavaladeva, the son of *Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara-rāṇaka* Lavaṇaprasādadeva, born in the Caulukya-*kula*, in the……*rātra-maṇḍala* (obtained) by favour of the aforesaid *M.*-Bhīmadeva. The rest is mainly devoted to an elaborate description of the management of the temple and some endowments to the same. The *Śrāvaka* trustees (*goṣṭhika*) appointed for the temple were Tejaḥpāla, his two brothers Malladeva and Vastupāla, their descendants and all male members of the family of Lūṇasiṁha's mother Anupamadevī⁴ and their descendants. Amongst the names of persons to whom the care of the temple was entrusted occur the names of *Rājakula* Somasimha, the lord of Candrāvatī and his son the *Rājakula* Kānhadadeva.¹ Line 31 records that the *Mahārājakula* Somasimhadeva granted to Neminātha in the Lūṇasimha-*vasāhikā* the village of Ḍavāṇi in Vāhirahaḍī, for his worship and personal allowance. The record concludes with Somasimha ‘entreating the future kings of the Pramāra (Paramāra) race to protect his gift for all time.’²