History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c84.s6.t1.18

v5.c84.s6.t1.18

Aurangzib's policy of religious persecution had full play in Gujrat too, with its usual baneful consequences. We have seen how in the reign of his father he had as *subahdar* of Gujrat destroyed the Chintaman temple in Ahmadabad and several other Hindu shrines elsewhere [Ch. 34 § 9 and App. 5.] Throughout his reign, and more especially after 1669, when his iconoclastic zeal bubbled forth anew, he frequently sent out orders to the local officers of Gujrat to demolish particular temples, the most notable of them being the Somnath on the sea-coast and the Hateshwar Mahadev of Vadnagar. [*Mirat*, 273, 372, 346; *Inayet* 10a.]