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" History of Bengal, p. 36. Elsewhere we read, that, " having broken the idols in above a thousand temples, he purified and consecrated the latter to the worship of the true God. "
The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times - Page xxviii
by Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 388 pages
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History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India: Till the Year A. D. 1612

Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū Shāh Astarābādī Firishtah - 1829 - 748 pages
...stones, to a large amountHe marched from thence to Benares, where, having broken the idols in above 1000 temples, he purified and consecrated the latter to the worship of the true God. From thence he returned to the fort of Kole, where he confirmed Kootb-ood-Deen Eibuk in the vice- regency...
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The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times

Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 452 pages
...G&ographique, Historique et Scientifique sur Vlnde, etc.,p. 288. 8 English Ayeen Alcbery, Vol. II., p. 35. 4 Major Stewart's History of Bengal, p. 36. Elsewhere...it; and commercial or political importance it had none. 1 Even Akbar, with all his toleration of Hinduism, and occasional partiality to it, did nothing...
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Rās Mālā: Hindu Annals of Western India with Particular Reference ..., Volume 1

Alexander Kinloch Forbes - 1924 - 520 pages
...the banks of the Jumna, and took Kanouj and Benares, ' where, having broken the idols ' in above one thousand temples, he purified and consecrated ' the latter to the worship of the true God.' The Rathor sovereign himself met a death congenial to the Hindoo, being drowned in the sacred stream....
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Al-Hind the Making of the Indo-Islamic World: The Slave Kings and the ...

André Wink - 1990 - 452 pages
...Muhammad Ghuri marched on the city, we are merely told that 'after breaking the idols in above 1000 temples, he purified and consecrated the latter to the worship of the true God'.157 Numerous other iconoclastic incidents are recounted throughout the eleventh-thirteenth centuries,...
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Al-Hind: The Slavic Kings and the Islamic conquest, 11th-13th centuries

André Wink - 2002 - 444 pages
...Muhammad Ghuri marched on the city, we are merely told that 'after breaking the idols in above 1000 temples, he purified and consecrated the latter to the worship of the true God'. 157 Numerous other iconoclastic incidents are recounted throughout the eleventh-thirteenth centuries,...
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