"These infidels believe that souls, after death, went before Sumnat [Somnath], who transferred them into other bodies or animals, according to their merits in their former state. The Sultan was also informed that the priests of this God, gave out, that the sins of the people of Delhi and Kinnoge [Kanauj] had incensed him so much, that he abandoned them to the vengeance of the Mussulmen, otherwise that in the twinkling of an eye, he [the God Somnath] could have blasted the whole army of Mahmood [sic]. The Sultan, no ways intimidated by this report, was determined to put the power of the God to a trial, by personally treating him ill. He therefore marched from Ghizni with a numerous army …"
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Firishta, History of Hindostan, p. 80ff quoted from Sampath V. (2022). Bravehearts of bharat : vignettes from indian history. Penguin Random House India
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Firishta
Firishta or Ferishta(Urdu: فرِشتہ), full name Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah (Urdu: مُحمّد قاسِم ہِندُو شاہ ), was a Persian historian who was born in 1560 and died in 1620.
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