The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.50
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.50
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The Brāhmans attached to this famous shrine boasted that their master Shiva, the moon-lord, was the most powerful of all the gods and that it was only owing to his displeasure with other gods that the invader had been permitted to plunder and pollute their shrines. This provocative vaunt suggested to Mahmūd the destruction of the temple of Somnāth as the readiest means to a wholesale conversion of the idolators.