Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.65

c10.65

“was given up for three, and some say seven, days to flame, slaughter and devastation. All the superb monuments of the Ghaznevite kings were demolished and every trace of them effaced, except the tombs of Maḥmūd, Mas’ūd and Ibrāhīm; the first two of whom were spared for their valour and the last probably for his sanctity.”¹