"Now hereafter are written the endowments (vithi), a garden for the god of gods, who wears the war-disc, which (endowm…"

"After the 1857 Indian Mutiny/Great Rebellion, European belief in their religious superiority became racial too. After…"

"However, it was during the reign of Sikandar Butshikan (1394-1417), that the wind of Muslim proselytization blew the …"

"The original Shiva Lingam in the temple, along with over 300 precious idols of Gods and Godesses therein and other st…"

"Militants damaged 127 temples and 16,000 houses of Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley between 1986 and 1992, according to…"

"The Kashmir Samiti has produced a report titled Riots in Kashmir, listing 85 temples destroyed in the valley, and cla…"

"The British army explorer, Francis Younghusband (1816- 1942) pronounced the (Martand) temple as “... the finest struc…"

"The Valley of Kashmir is the ‘holy land’ of the Hindus, and I have rarely been in any village which cannot show some …"

"The hillock, according to Tarikh-i-Hassan, (pp 394-496, Vol. II) and (Waquiai Kashmir of Mulla Ahmed was known origin…"

"The Shankaracharya temple atop about 1000 feet high hillock of the same name is to the south-east of Srinagar. Ringed…"