History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c33.s3.55

v3.c33.s3.55

Utbi relates that a stone was brought out of the temple the writing on which declared that the building was forty thousand years old. “What a folly” the Sultan observed “when the learned of the world have agreed that the world is itself not more than seven thousand years old!!!” To us in the twentieth century, both the statement on the stone and its criticism appear equally absurd. Probably this was a very ancient inscription dating from the time of Aśoka and the people in the neighbourhood not knowing its exact date assigned it a fabulous age. Nandana in the Salt Range is undoubtedly an ancient place as its remains indicate.