"“the laudable work of the construction of the Mahabodhi temple” was “undertaken by a Brahmana minister of Shaivite persuasion”.6"
— Bodh Gaya

January 1, 1970

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Dipak K. Barua (of the Bodh Gaya temple management committee): Buddha Gaya, Bodh Gaya 1981, p.41, with reference to Xuan Zang, who saw the temple in 637 A.D. Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2002). Ayodhya: The case against the temple.