Somnath temple Quotes
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“Khalji dynasty”
“Sack of Somnath”
“Mahmud of Ghazni”
“Gujarat Sultanate”
“Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud”
“Alauddin Khalji's conquest of Gujarat”
“I don’t like your trying to restore Somnath. It is Hindu revivalism.”
“Muslims must realize and admit the wrongs perpetrated under the Islamic rule.”
“Wikipedia: Somnath temple”
“Wikiquote: Sack of Somnath”
“Wikiquote: Alauddin Khalji's conquest of Gujarat”
“In AH 797 (AD 1394-95) he proceeded for the destruction of the temple of Somnãt. On the way he made Rajpûts food for his sword and demolished whatever temple he saw at any place.”
“About this time the (new?) temple of Somnath on the south coast of the Kathiawar peninsula was demolished, and the offering of worship there ordered to be stopped. The smaller religious buildings that suffered havoc were beyond count.”
“Neither age nor experience of life softened Aurangzib’s bigotry. When an old man of over eighty, we find him inquiring whether the Hindu worship, which he had put down at Somnath early in his reign, had been revived through the slackness of the local governor...”
“See R.L. Handa, Rajendra Prasad: Twelve Years of Triumph and Despair (New Delhi: Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1978), pp. 50–51 6 p. 51; K.M. Munshi, Pilgrimage to Freedom, Vol. 1, p. 288. Vikram Sampath - Waiting for Shiva_ Unearthing the Truth of Kashi's Gyan Vapi-BluOne Ink (2024)”
“Munshi, who visited the site of the desecrated temple in the twentieth century, wrote,
“The Third Temple of beautiful thin-grained red sandstone was thus destroyed. I saw the steps of the temple, the base of the pillars burnt and the debris of its south wall sloping seaward imbedded in the earth”.”
“I confess that I do not like the idea of your associating yourself with a spectacular opening of the Somnath Temple. This is not merely visiting a temple, which can certainly be done by you or anyone else but rather participating in a significant function which unfortunately has a number of implications..””
“Perhaps no other pilgrimage in India combines the eternal with the historical as vividly as that to the Somnath temple.... Whenever I have visited Prabhas Patan and watched the waves of the sea lapping up the feet of the Somnath temple, I have wondered how much of India’s timeless history has been witnessed by this imposing and lonely-looking shrine.”
“I mentioned to the President sometime ago that I did not fancy his visiting the Somnath temple on this occasion. He said he had promised to do so and it was difficult for him to get out of his promise. There is nothing more to be done about it. But I have made it clear both to the President and to Mr. Munshi that I do not at all like these activities. …”