"We came down on them like a flood, We went out among their cities, We tore down the idol-temples, We shat on the Buddha's head!"
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Elverskog, Johan (2010). Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-8122-4237-9.
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