"The Moroccan traveller, Ibn Battuta (1304-1369) who visited Khajuraho in 1335, provided the earliest record of Muslim iconoclasm at the site. He wrote that at Kajarrti, ..there is a great pond about a mile in length near which are temples containing idols which the Muslims have mutilated. In the centre of that pond there are three cupolas of red stone, each of three storeys; and at the four corners of the pond are cupolas in which live a body of the jogis who have clotted their hair and let them grow so that they become as long as their bodies and on account of their practicing asceticism their colour had become extremely yellow. Many Musalmans follow them in order to take lessons from them. Itis said that, whoever is subjected to diseases like the leprosy or elephantiasis lives with them for a long period of time and is cured by the permission of God."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
(Ibn Battuta 1953: 166). quuoted in Jain, M. (2019). Flight of deities and rebirth of temples: Espisodes from Indian history.144
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Khajuraho
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Khajuraho
4 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Khajuraho →
Related Quotes
"....before finally taking leave of the seven temples, I shall state my opinion, that they are most probably the fines…"
"“perhaps the largest group of costly Hindu temples that is now to be found in Northern India.”"
"We went from Parwan [Narwar] to Kajarra [Khajuraho], where there is a large tank about a mile long having on its bank…"
"Professor Sri Ram Sharma cites from Tãrîkh-i-Bãburî that “His Sadr, Shaikh Zain, demolished many Hindu temples at Cha…"
"In AH 934 (AD 1528), I attacked Chanderî and, by the grace of Allãh, captured it in a few hours… We got the infidels …"
"Baburnama, Translated by S.A.A. Rizvi included in Mughal Kãlîna Bhãrata: Bãbur, Aligarh, 1960, p. 167"
"The contemporary Tarikh-i-Babari describes how Babar’s troops “demolished many Hindu temples at Chanderi” when they o…"
"Similarly, when sultan Mahmud led an expedition against the Hara Rajputs in 1454, he put many of them to the sword, “…"
"Why they had gone so suddenly off the walls seems to have been that they had taken the resolve of those who give up a…"
"Chandiri I stormed in 934 A.H. (1528 A.D.) and, by God's pleasure, took it in a few hours; in it was Rana Sanga's gre…"