"The oldest and the best known building at Gaur and Pandua is the Ãdîna Masjid at Pandua built by Sikandar Shãh, the son of Ilyãs Shãh. The date of its inscription may be read as either 776 or 770, which corresponds with 1374 or 1369 A.D… The materials employed consisted largely of the spoils of Hindu temples and many of the carvings from the temples have been used as facings of doors, arches and pillars… In order to erect mosques and tombs the Muhammadans pulled down all Hindu temples they could lay their hands upon for the sake of the building materials…"
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Archaeological Survey of India, Annual Report (1902-1903), p. 52. Quoted by A. Shourie & S. R. Goel, Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them (1990), Vol. 1, Ch. 10: Let the Mute Witnesses Speak
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