"From that place the royal army proceeded towards Benares, ‘which is in the centre of the country of Hind,’ and here they destroyed nearly one thousand temples, and raised mosques on their foundations; and the knowledge of the law became promulgated, and the foundations of religion were established; ‘and the face of the dinar and the diram was adorned with the name and blessed titles’ of the king. The Rais and chiefs of Hind came forward to proffer their allegiance. ‘The government of that country was bestowed on one of the most celebrated and exalted servants of the State,’ in order that he might distribute justice and repress idolatry."
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About the sack of Benares by the forces of Muhammed of Ghor (comomander Q. Aibak). Hasan Nizami in Elliot and Dowson, Vol. II : Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, 8 Volumes, Allahabad Reprint, 1964. (223ff) and quoted in part in Eck, D. L. (1999). Banaras: city of light. New York: Columbia University Press. Also quoted in Jain, Meenakshi (2011). The India they saw: Foreign accounts. also in Jain, M. (2019). Flight of deities and rebirth of temples: Espisodes from
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