Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c8.s6.3

c8.s6.3

One of the inscriptions tells us that “The building of this ‘Jāmi’ Masjid was finished during the reign of the Defender of Islām and ‘Breaker of Idols,’ Jahāngīr Bādshāhi Ghāzi. May God perpetuate his kingdom! Dated the fifth month [or fifth of the month] of Zūl-Hijjah, in the fifth year of his accession” (A.D. 1610). The reference here to Jahāngīr, as the breaker of idols, would seem to imply that Hindu shrines had been raided and dismantled to provide material in this case.