Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarat c19.s2.t1.113
Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarát c19.s2.t1.113
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⁵ From the term 'sculptured' it would seem the idol was of stone. It is curious how Ibn Asír states a little further that a part of the idol was "burnt by Mahmúd." See Elliot, II, 471. The Tárikh-i-Alfi says (Elliot, II, 471) that the idol was cut of solid stone. It however represents it as hollow and "containing jewels, in repeating the somewhat hackneyed words of Mahmúd when breaking the idol regardless of the handsome offer of the Brahmans, and finding it full of jewels.