"It had been brought to the notice of His Majesty that during the late reign many idol temples had been begun, but remained unfinished at Benares, the great stronghold of infidelity. The infidels were now desirous of completing them. His Majesty, the defender of the faith, gave orders that at Benares, and throughout all his dominions in every place, all temples that had been begun should be cast down. It was now reported from the province of Allahãbãd that seventy-six temples had been destroyed in the district of Benares.'"
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Bãdshãh-Nãma, by Abdul Hamîd Lãhorî, in Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, Vol. VII, p. 36.
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