Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them v2.c19.s1.3

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Sidhpur is a Taluka town, sixty-four miles north of Ahmadabad. It is situated on the left bank of the river Saraswati, fifteen miles upstream of ANhilwaD PaTan, the old capital of Gujarat before Ahmadabad was founded in the first quarter of the fifteenth century. In a part of the town, says the Commissions Report, is located what is known as Rudramahalaya complex. This complex was built by Siddhraj Jayasimha in the 12th century. This temple seems to have been destroyed partly by Ulugh Khan in AD 1297-98 and partly by Ahmedshah in AD 1415. Some of the cubicles and a number of pillars on the Western side of the temple it would appear were later converted into a mosque.¹