"Vejnath Temple 1 There was a temple in the town of Vejehbrara (sic) (present day Bijbehara). Kashmiris called it Vejnath. It had no parallel in its beauty and artistic splendour. The top was capped with four rising pinnacles. When Sultan Sikandar the Iconoclast arrived at the said temple to undertake its demolition, he got the pinnacles removed without causing them any damage. These were placed on four well-known structures in the city. One was put atop the JamiĂa Masjid, the second atop the hospice of Amir Sayyid Ă«Ali Hamadani, the third on top of the cupola of Sultan SikandarĂs (?) tomb, and the fourth atop the palace of Sultan Sikandar in Hairan Bazar (?). The aforesaid temple was rebuilt during the reign of Sultan ZainuĂl-ĂAbidin. It was bestowed with the splendour of earlier days. Idolatry was revived and festivals of the infidels and their feasts were also revived as before. ShamsuĂd-Din Araki came to that place in person and saw to the demolition of the temple. The foundations of the prayer house of the infidels were demolished, and its stones were brought to the city, where these were used to build the boundary wall of the Hamadaniyyeh hospice. A splendid mosque was raised in place of the temple. The task of raising the mosque had been entrusted to the father of this writer. Seven kharwars of land was allotted to the mosque and this was also given in the trusteeship of my father. He (my father) assigned the land among his brothers along with the duties of conducting prayers and religious discourses. These lands continue to be in the possession of the descendants of my uncles. Inn of Jogis There was one more temple in the town of Vejeh Belarah (Vijbror) called Prezyar in Kashmiri language. This too was razed to the ground and the customs and shrines of idolaters and polytheists were effaced from the surface of the earth for all times to come. Perzehyar Temple Another temple stood in the same locality (Vejehblareh/ Vejebror). In Kashmiri language it was called Perzehyara (?). It was also demolished and with that all traces of idol worshipping and polytheism and also the customs and shrines of the infidels were uprooted once for all."
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Tohfatu'l-Ahbab
Tohfatu'l-Ahbab is a Farsi work by Muhammad Ali Kashmiri, presumably written in 1642. It is the biography of Shamsu'd-Din Muhammad Araki, a Shi'a Muslim missionary, who visited Kashmir, Gilgit and Baltistan in the 15th and 16th century. Araki was the founder of the Nurbakhshiyyeh Sufi order in Kashmir.
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