Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.6

c10.6

It need hardly be pointed out that it was at his capital at Ghaznī that he showered the largest portion of his munificence; and so to the Hindus, the darker aspects of his character were better known than the brighter. The name of Maḥmūd has become with them a synonym for bigotry, cruelty and rapacity combined. A Hindu who hears of his seventeen successive invasions of India, of his destruction of Hindu temples and images of gods and goddesses, of the numberless