2. Extant temples of the 10th century A.D. (Merutunga’s account)

According to Merutunga Mularaja I built the Vasahika³ of Mularaja and the temple of Muladevaswami in Patan. Later he built the temple of Mulesvara at Mandali, which is evidently the temple of Mulanathadeva mentioned above. Marutunga also states that Mularaja built the Tripurusa temple 5 at Anahilapataka.5/a 2. Traditionally this temple is said to have been begun to be constructed by Mularaja but completed by Jayasinha Siddharaja ( Prabandha Cintamani P. 61). But the reference to Mularajas worshipping (the image of) Rudra at Rudramahalaya makes it clear that the shrine was already completed in his time. Siddharaja may have either repaired or enlarged the temple. (C. G. XVIII, p. 377) 3. Prabandha Cintamani Tawny, 25-6; Prabandha Cintamani Jinvijaya, 17-8. 4. Prabandha Cintamani Tawny, 26; Prabandha Cintamani Jinvijaya, 18. In some manuscripts the temple is named Prasada of Munjaladevaswami. In his translation Tawney has followed this reading (Prabandha Cintamani Tawny p. 25). But this is obviously a wrong reading for the Prasada of Muladevaswami as Munjala flourished in the time of Karna 1. The latter reading is justifiably adopted by Shri D. K. Shastri (Prabandha Cintamani p. 26). 5. Latter on Merutunga records that Bhima I built a new Tripurusa Prasada in the memory of his deceased son Prince Mularaja (Shri D. K. Shastri Prabandha Cintamani p. 86). It is possible that Mularaja I and Bhima I both may have built 'Tripurusa Prasada' at Anahilapura. At the same time it is also possible that the later writers may have confused between King Mularaja and this Prince Mularaja, and may have accordingly ascribed the Tripurusa Prasada built by Bhima in memory of Prince Mularaja to King Mularaja I. 1 5/a. Shri Meter A. Dhaky and H. P. Shastri are of the opinion that Mularaja rebuilt a large and superb temple of Somanatha at Prabhas. Shri Dhaky further states that the famous temple of Hatakesvara at Vadnagar also was constructed by Mularaja (The Chronology of Solanki Temples of Gujarat p. 20) The veiws of both these scholars are discussed in the context of respective temples (Vide here relative portions about both the temples in Section II. ch. 4 & 5 respectively).

Structural Temples of the Caulukyan Period 99 The Plates of Camunda, the crown-prince of Mularaja, record the existense of a Jain temple at Varunasarmaka (Vadasama, in Mehsana District).6 Another Inscription refers to the existence of a Jain temple at Broach in Saka Era 910 (988-89 A. D.). The temple was known as Mulavasati." The Gurvavali by Muni Sundar Suri (A. D. 1410-11) contains a reference to a temple of Rsabhadeva at the village Ramasainya Ramsena, 24 Kms. N. W. of Deesa ).8 Some of the existing temples are generally ascribed to the 10 th century A. D.