Obscure Religious Cults as Background of Bengali Literature c19.32

c19.32

³ There we find that when the Brahminic people of Maldah began to tax the Saddharmis (i.e., the Dharmites who professed to be the Saddharmis), to persecute them and to kill them, Lord Nirañjana got much angry in Vaikuṇṭha and revealed himself as the *Khodā* (God) of the Muslims in the village of Jājpura; he was seated on a horse with a black hat on and with a bow and arrow in hands, and all the gods and goddesses of the Hindu pantheon gladly put on the dress of Muslim soldiers to accompany the lord. The lord, however, with his army broke all the temples of the Hindus, plundered the Hindus, ravaged them and persecuted them, and the Dharmites were saved. Jājpura, a village in the district of Hugli, is described in the Dharma-maṅgala literature as a very important place of the Dhar-