Vastupala, Vastu-pala, Vāstupāla: 5 definitions
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India history and geography
Vastupāla (वस्तुपाल) (or Vatthupāla) is the name of a minister, as is mentioned in the Vividhatīrthakalpa by Jinaprabhasūri (13th century A.D.): an ancient text devoted to various Jaina holy places (tīrthas).—Accordingly, “Vastupāla had a statue of Rsabha and one of Puṇḍarīka carved. [...] Vastupāla erected a temple dedicated to Nemi. [...] Vastupāla built the Sittumjāvayāra temple, the pavilions of the Aṭṭhāvaya and the Saṃmea and the temples of Yaksa Kavaddi and the goddess Marudevī”.
Note: Burgess 1874-75 p. 173 cites an inscription on the temple of Vastupāla and Tejaḥpāla dedicated to Nemi, dated 1231, which gives a brief description of the constructions of Minister Vastupāla: "In the year 1288 VS (1231), a Monday, the fifteenth day of the fortnight gloomy month of vinśvin (September-October), the great minister Vastupāla had four brand new temples built at his own expense, resplendent by their arrangement ( ? ghāṭarana) unprecedented: for his own merit (he built) a temple of Ādinātha of Śatruñjaya enhanced from behind by another temple dedicated to Yaksa Kapardin. [...]
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Sanskrit dictionary
Vāstupāla (वास्तुपाल).—the tutelary deity of a house.
Derivable forms: vāstupālaḥ (वास्तुपालः).
Vāstupāla is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms vāstu and pāla (पाल). See also (synonyms): vāstudevatā.
1) Vastupāla (वस्तुपाल) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—minister of Vīradhavala (died in 1241), patron of Udayaprabha (Ārambhasiddhi). W. 1741.
2) Vastupāla (वस्तुपाल):—poet. Śp. p. 84.
1) Vastupāla (वस्तुपाल):—[=vastu-pāla] [from vastu > vas] m. Name of a minister of king Vīra-dhavala (died A.D. 1241), [Catalogue(s)]
2) [v.s. ...] of a poet, [ib.]
3) Vāstupāla (वास्तुपाल):—[=vāstu-pāla] [from vāstu > vāstava] m. the tutelary deity of a h°, [Vāstuvidyā]
Vastupāla (वस्तुपाल):—m. Nomen proprium eines Dichters [Oxforder Handschriften 124,b,31.]
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Vasantavilasa of Balachandra Suri (translation and study) (by R. T. Bhat)
Part 3 - Vastupala—A Great Patron of Learning < [Chapter 3 - Historical account of Vastupala and his achievements]
Canto 3 - The Chaulukya Kings of Gujarat < [Chapter 5 - Vasantavilasa-Mahakavya and its Contents]
Footnotes and References for chapter 3 < [Chapter 3 - Historical account of Vastupala and his achievements]
The Structural Temples of Gujarat (by Kantilal F. Sompura)
4.17. Temples of Vastupala and Tejapala < [Chapter 4 - Structural temples of the Caulukyan period (942-1299 A.D.)]
2.4. Triple-shrined Temples < [Chapter 4 - The Architectural forms of Temples]
Chapter 2 - Temples in Pre-historic and Proto-historic times < [Part 1, Section 2: Temples built in Gujarat upto 1600 A.D.]
Naishadha-charita of Shriharsha (by Krishna Kanta Handiqui)
Introduction to Vidyādhara’s commentary < [Introduction]
Introduction to Cāṇḍūpaṇḍita’s commentary < [Introduction]
Advayavajra-samgraha (Sanskrit text and English introduction) (by Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri)
Ganitatilaka (Sanskrit text and English introduction) (by H. R. Kapadia)
Page 198 < [Sanskrit Text of the Ganitatilaka]
Page 199 < [Sanskrit Text of the Ganitatilaka]
Page 204 < [Sanskrit Text of the Ganitatilaka]
Glimpses of History of Sanskrit Literature (by Satya Vrat Shastri)
Chapter 15.2 - Introduction to the Historical Kavyas < [Section 4 - Classical Sanskrit literature]