Note 24 — Chapter III · THE VÁGHELÁS (a.d. 1219–1304).
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The Śatruñjaya temple which is dedicated to the twenty-third Tírthaṅkara Neminátha is dated a.d. 1232 (Saṃvat 1288) and has an inscription by Someśvara, the author of the Kírtikaumudí telling how it was built. The Girnár temple, also dedicated to Neminátha, bears date a.d. 1232 (Saṃvat 1288). The Ábu temple, surpassing the others and almost every building in India in the richness and delicacy of its carving, is dedicated to Neminátha and dated a.d. 1231 (Saṃvat 1287). Such was the liberality of the brothers that to protect them against the cold mountain air each of their masons had a fire near him to warm himself and a hot dinner cooked for him at the close of the day. The finest carvers were paid in silver equal in weight to the dust chiselled out of their carvings.24