| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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