"Mr. Sharma has not given a single piece of archaeological or historical evidence in support of what he says. The archaeological and other evidence from art history indicate that there was a Brahminical temple at the place where the mosque stands today. The iconographical features like vanamala and karandmukut show that it was probably a Vaishnava temple."
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S. P. Gupta, quoted by Peter Van der Veer: Religious Nationalism, p.219, n.55. quoted from Koenraad Elst. Ayodhya: The Case Against the Temple (2002)
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