"The bigot by whom the temples were destroyed, is said to have erected mosques on the situations of the most remarkable temples; but the mosque at Ayodhya... is ascertained by an inscription on its walls... to have been built by Babur (...) The only thing except these two figures and the bricks, that could with probability be traced to the ancient city, are some pillars in the mosque built by Babur, These are of black stone, and of an order which I have seen nowhere else, and which will be understood from the accompanying drawing. That they have been taken from a Hindu building, is evident, from the traces of images being observable on some of their bases; although the images have been cut off to satisfy the conscience of the bigot."
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Montgomery, Martin, The history, antiquities, topography, and statistics of eastern India 1838, Quoted from Narain, Harsh (1993). The Ayodhya temple-mosque dispute: Focus on Muslim sources. Delhi: Penman Publishers. [https://archive.org/details/TheAyodhyaTempleMosqueDisputeFocusOnMuslimSourcesHarshNarain, and in Jain, M. (2017). The battle of Rama: Case of the temple at Ayodhya. ch 3
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