"The Valley of Kashmir is the ‘holy land’ of the Hindus, and I have rarely been in any village which cannot show some relic of antiquity. Curious stone miniatures of the old Kashmiri temples (Kulr- Muru), huge stone seats of Mahadeo (Badrpith) inverted by pious Musalmans, Phallic emblems innumerable, and carved images heaped in grotesque confusion by some clear spring, have met me at every turn."
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Sir Walter R. Lawrence (ICS) about Kashmir. in Lawrence 1895: 161). quoted in Jain, M. (2019). Flight of deities and rebirth of temples: Espisodes from Indian history.
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