![Saatvata's tweet photo. Not just any temple, but the site one of the greatest Hindu temples in antiquity.
It was much larger than any extant Gupta-era temples in North India today (Daśāvatāra temple in Deogarh, Nācnā-Kuṭhārā temple complex [Caturmukhanātha, etc.], Bhītargāon temple in Kanpur, Lakṣmaṇa temple in Sirpur, etc.).
Unfortunately, like most significant North Indian temples (Bhojeśvara, Mārtaṇḍa, Mūlasthāna, Somanātha, etc.), it too was destroyed in the first few centuries of Islamic conquest.
The grandeur of the holy city of Mathurā and its Vāsudeva temple was described as follows by al-ʿUtbiyy.
fa-raʾā mā yuk͟hālifu l-ʿādāti wa-yaftaqiru ruwātuhā ilā š-šahādāti bal al-mušāhadāt; baladan mabniyya l-sūri min ṣammi l-ṣuk͟hūr, wa-qad ušriʿa bābāni minhā ilā l-māʾi l-muḥīṭi bih. mawḍūʿatan abniyatuhu fawqa šawāk͟hīṣi l-qilāl, ṣiyānatan lahā min maḍārri suyūli l-māʾi wa-maġāri ġuyūthi s-samāʾ.
wa-ʿan janabayhā alfu qaṣrin šabīhatin bi-sāʾiri l-abniyati fī l-withāqah, muštamilatan ʿalā buyūti aṣnāmin qad hundimat mafāṣilu aʿrāqihā bi-masāmīra tusāwī suṭūḥa l-bināʾ, wa-tuwārī mā warāʾahā mina l-ḥuzūzi taḥta l-k͟hafāʾ.
wa-fī ṣadri l-baladi baytu aṣnāmin yaḥkī ak͟hwātahu aw aḥsan, wa-yajrī majrā aḍrābihi bal atqan. lā yahtadī l-kuttābu bi-aqlāmi l-dawāti wa-lā n-naqqāšūna bi-aṭrāfi l-k͟hāmāti ilā amthālihā taḥsīnan wa-tazwīqan wa-nuqūšan tak͟hṭafu l-abṣāra barīqā.
wa-kāna fīmā kataba bihi al-Sulṭān:
annahu law arāda murīdun an yabniya mā yuʿādilu tilka l-abniyata la-ʿajaza ʿanhā bi-infāqi miʾati alfi alfi dirhamin fī muddati miʾatay sanatin ʿalā aydī ʿamalatin kamalatin wa-maharatin saḥarah.
wa-fī jumlati l-aṣnāmi k͟hamsatun min ad͟h-d͟hahabi maʿmūlatun ṭūlu k͟hamsati adhruʿ, ʿaynā wāḥidin minhā yāqūtatāni qīmatuhumā k͟hamsūna alfa dīnārin bal azyad, wa-ʿalā āk͟har yāqūtatun zarqāʾu waznuhā arbaʿu-miʾatin wa-k͟hamsūna mit͟hqālā, fa-kāna jumlatu ad͟h-d͟hahabiyyāti al-mawjūdati ʿalā aḥadi l-aṣnāmi al-mad͟hkūrati t͟hamāniyatan wa-tisʿīna alfa mit͟hqāl.
"There he witnessed what utterly defies normal human experience, forcing those who hear reports of it to demand not just testimonies, but direct eyewitness confirmation.
He found a city whose defensive walls were built from solid rock, with two massive gates flung open directly onto the surrounding waters.
Its buildings were situated high atop the prominent peaks of the mountains, specifically designed to safeguard them from the violent ravages of rushing floodwaters and the deep pooling of torrential rains from the heavens.
Along both its flanks sat a thousand palaces, matching each other in absolute structural integrity and fortification.
Within them were temple chambers housing idols, where the gaps between the rows of stone blocks had been so perfectly engineered with iron clamps that they sat entirely flush with the surface of the walls, completely concealing whatever structural grooves lay beneath them under absolute secrecy.
In the very heart of the city stood a central temple that mirrored its sister structures, or was even more splendid, and ran parallel to its counterparts, though crafted with far more absolute mastery.
Neither scribes with the pens of their inkwells nor engravers with the tips of their reed brushes could ever hope to find a way to replicate its likeness by way of beautification, gilding, or intricate carvings that snatch away the eyes with their blinding brilliance.
And included in what Sulṭān (Ġaznawī) wrote [was the statement]:
"If an intender wished to build the likes of these buildings, he would be incapable of it, even with the expenditure of one hundred million dirhams over a period of two hundred years, at the hands of master craftsmen and magicians."
Among the collection of idols were five made of gold, measuring five cubits in height. The eyes of one of them were two rubies worth fifty thousand dinars- nay, even more.
Upon another idol was a blue ruby weighing four hundred and fifty mit͟hqals. In total, the gold items found on just one of the aforementioned idols amounted to ninety-eight thousand mit͟hqals."
How did the Sulṭān Ġaznawī destroy such a massive structure?
They used a technique known as sapping.
The soldiers would would dig out the mortar and remove supporting blocks from the base of walls or columns.
They would then pack the tunnels and wooden props with bundles of brushwood and pour liquid naphtha over everything.
The weight of the massive stone roofs and upper walls would then pancake downward and collapse the entire temple into its own footprint.
Additionally, iron clamps were used to hold the stones together.
Extreme heat from the naphtha fire softens and melts the iron components while causing the surrounding stone to fracture into pieces.
A smaller temple was later constructed at the site, yet it too was destroyed under Sikandar Lodī.
Hindus were barred from performing ritual ablutions in the Yamunā river, local barbers were barred from performing tonsure of Hindu pilgrims, mosques and commercial markets were set up directly opposite the bathing stairs, and the idols were handed over to butchers to be used as meat-weights.
These restrictions were lifted during the reign of Akbar and Vīr Siṅgh Dev of Orchā built a grand temple at the site during the reign Jahāngīr.
This temple was destroyed by Awrangzēb and an ʿĪdgāh/Masjid constructed thereupon.
The city was also renamed to Islāmābād, though this remained a strictly "daftarī" title and the residents of the city still referred to it as Mathurā:
"In this same realm of dignity (karāmat), the justice-nurturing, oppression-overthrowing, truth-aware, equity-increasing, tyrant-destroying monarch [viz. Awrangzēb ʿĀlamgīr], the morning-breeze of triumph which wipes away the oppressor's abode and the reviver of the religion [viz. Islām] of the Best of Mankind [viz. Prophet Muḥammad] issued a fateful yarlīġ for the destruction of the temple of Mathurā known as the Dēhrā of Kēśav Rāī.
This decree was carried out in a short time through the great efforts of the officials, so that its destruction was firmly brought from potential into action and in its place, a lofty-founded mosque was constructed, at the cost of a considerable sum, replacing a house of misguidance with a newly established building of noble adornment...
Praise be to God for the religion of Islam! (al-ḥamdu li l-Lāhi ʿalā dīni l-Islām) For in this auspicious era of the eradicator of polytheism and rebellion, such a magnificent and seemingly impossible feat emerged from the hidden realm into the field of manifestation.
Seeing this strength of religious patronage and the majesty of worship of Allāh, the prideful Rājās' breath was caught in their throats. They stood still in bewilderment like figures with their faces to the wall.
The idols and icons, both great and small, adorned with precious jewels, which had been installed in that temple of the polytheists and gathering place of the irreligious were brought to Akbarābād (i.e. Āgrā).
There, they were buried beneath the steps of the mosque of Nawāb Qudsiyya Bēgam Sāḥib, so that they might forever be trampled underfoot.
The name of Mathurā was recorded in the registers/ledgers and proclaimed by word of mouth as "Islāmābād" (the abode of Islām)."](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLCniyMWUAAgtlh.jpg)
![Saatvata's tweet photo. Not just any temple, but the site one of the greatest Hindu temples in antiquity.
It was much larger than any extant Gupta-era temples in North India today (Daśāvatāra temple in Deogarh, Nācnā-Kuṭhārā temple complex [Caturmukhanātha, etc.], Bhītargāon temple in Kanpur, Lakṣmaṇa temple in Sirpur, etc.).
Unfortunately, like most significant North Indian temples (Bhojeśvara, Mārtaṇḍa, Mūlasthāna, Somanātha, etc.), it too was destroyed in the first few centuries of Islamic conquest.
The grandeur of the holy city of Mathurā and its Vāsudeva temple was described as follows by al-ʿUtbiyy.
fa-raʾā mā yuk͟hālifu l-ʿādāti wa-yaftaqiru ruwātuhā ilā š-šahādāti bal al-mušāhadāt; baladan mabniyya l-sūri min ṣammi l-ṣuk͟hūr, wa-qad ušriʿa bābāni minhā ilā l-māʾi l-muḥīṭi bih. mawḍūʿatan abniyatuhu fawqa šawāk͟hīṣi l-qilāl, ṣiyānatan lahā min maḍārri suyūli l-māʾi wa-maġāri ġuyūthi s-samāʾ.
wa-ʿan janabayhā alfu qaṣrin šabīhatin bi-sāʾiri l-abniyati fī l-withāqah, muštamilatan ʿalā buyūti aṣnāmin qad hundimat mafāṣilu aʿrāqihā bi-masāmīra tusāwī suṭūḥa l-bināʾ, wa-tuwārī mā warāʾahā mina l-ḥuzūzi taḥta l-k͟hafāʾ.
wa-fī ṣadri l-baladi baytu aṣnāmin yaḥkī ak͟hwātahu aw aḥsan, wa-yajrī majrā aḍrābihi bal atqan. lā yahtadī l-kuttābu bi-aqlāmi l-dawāti wa-lā n-naqqāšūna bi-aṭrāfi l-k͟hāmāti ilā amthālihā taḥsīnan wa-tazwīqan wa-nuqūšan tak͟hṭafu l-abṣāra barīqā.
wa-kāna fīmā kataba bihi al-Sulṭān:
annahu law arāda murīdun an yabniya mā yuʿādilu tilka l-abniyata la-ʿajaza ʿanhā bi-infāqi miʾati alfi alfi dirhamin fī muddati miʾatay sanatin ʿalā aydī ʿamalatin kamalatin wa-maharatin saḥarah.
wa-fī jumlati l-aṣnāmi k͟hamsatun min ad͟h-d͟hahabi maʿmūlatun ṭūlu k͟hamsati adhruʿ, ʿaynā wāḥidin minhā yāqūtatāni qīmatuhumā k͟hamsūna alfa dīnārin bal azyad, wa-ʿalā āk͟har yāqūtatun zarqāʾu waznuhā arbaʿu-miʾatin wa-k͟hamsūna mit͟hqālā, fa-kāna jumlatu ad͟h-d͟hahabiyyāti al-mawjūdati ʿalā aḥadi l-aṣnāmi al-mad͟hkūrati t͟hamāniyatan wa-tisʿīna alfa mit͟hqāl.
"There he witnessed what utterly defies normal human experience, forcing those who hear reports of it to demand not just testimonies, but direct eyewitness confirmation.
He found a city whose defensive walls were built from solid rock, with two massive gates flung open directly onto the surrounding waters.
Its buildings were situated high atop the prominent peaks of the mountains, specifically designed to safeguard them from the violent ravages of rushing floodwaters and the deep pooling of torrential rains from the heavens.
Along both its flanks sat a thousand palaces, matching each other in absolute structural integrity and fortification.
Within them were temple chambers housing idols, where the gaps between the rows of stone blocks had been so perfectly engineered with iron clamps that they sat entirely flush with the surface of the walls, completely concealing whatever structural grooves lay beneath them under absolute secrecy.
In the very heart of the city stood a central temple that mirrored its sister structures, or was even more splendid, and ran parallel to its counterparts, though crafted with far more absolute mastery.
Neither scribes with the pens of their inkwells nor engravers with the tips of their reed brushes could ever hope to find a way to replicate its likeness by way of beautification, gilding, or intricate carvings that snatch away the eyes with their blinding brilliance.
And included in what Sulṭān (Ġaznawī) wrote [was the statement]:
"If an intender wished to build the likes of these buildings, he would be incapable of it, even with the expenditure of one hundred million dirhams over a period of two hundred years, at the hands of master craftsmen and magicians."
Among the collection of idols were five made of gold, measuring five cubits in height. The eyes of one of them were two rubies worth fifty thousand dinars- nay, even more.
Upon another idol was a blue ruby weighing four hundred and fifty mit͟hqals. In total, the gold items found on just one of the aforementioned idols amounted to ninety-eight thousand mit͟hqals."
How did the Sulṭān Ġaznawī destroy such a massive structure?
They used a technique known as sapping.
The soldiers would would dig out the mortar and remove supporting blocks from the base of walls or columns.
They would then pack the tunnels and wooden props with bundles of brushwood and pour liquid naphtha over everything.
The weight of the massive stone roofs and upper walls would then pancake downward and collapse the entire temple into its own footprint.
Additionally, iron clamps were used to hold the stones together.
Extreme heat from the naphtha fire softens and melts the iron components while causing the surrounding stone to fracture into pieces.
A smaller temple was later constructed at the site, yet it too was destroyed under Sikandar Lodī.
Hindus were barred from performing ritual ablutions in the Yamunā river, local barbers were barred from performing tonsure of Hindu pilgrims, mosques and commercial markets were set up directly opposite the bathing stairs, and the idols were handed over to butchers to be used as meat-weights.
These restrictions were lifted during the reign of Akbar and Vīr Siṅgh Dev of Orchā built a grand temple at the site during the reign Jahāngīr.
This temple was destroyed by Awrangzēb and an ʿĪdgāh/Masjid constructed thereupon.
The city was also renamed to Islāmābād, though this remained a strictly "daftarī" title and the residents of the city still referred to it as Mathurā:
"In this same realm of dignity (karāmat), the justice-nurturing, oppression-overthrowing, truth-aware, equity-increasing, tyrant-destroying monarch [viz. Awrangzēb ʿĀlamgīr], the morning-breeze of triumph which wipes away the oppressor's abode and the reviver of the religion [viz. Islām] of the Best of Mankind [viz. Prophet Muḥammad] issued a fateful yarlīġ for the destruction of the temple of Mathurā known as the Dēhrā of Kēśav Rāī.
This decree was carried out in a short time through the great efforts of the officials, so that its destruction was firmly brought from potential into action and in its place, a lofty-founded mosque was constructed, at the cost of a considerable sum, replacing a house of misguidance with a newly established building of noble adornment...
Praise be to God for the religion of Islam! (al-ḥamdu li l-Lāhi ʿalā dīni l-Islām) For in this auspicious era of the eradicator of polytheism and rebellion, such a magnificent and seemingly impossible feat emerged from the hidden realm into the field of manifestation.
Seeing this strength of religious patronage and the majesty of worship of Allāh, the prideful Rājās' breath was caught in their throats. They stood still in bewilderment like figures with their faces to the wall.
The idols and icons, both great and small, adorned with precious jewels, which had been installed in that temple of the polytheists and gathering place of the irreligious were brought to Akbarābād (i.e. Āgrā).
There, they were buried beneath the steps of the mosque of Nawāb Qudsiyya Bēgam Sāḥib, so that they might forever be trampled underfoot.
The name of Mathurā was recorded in the registers/ledgers and proclaimed by word of mouth as "Islāmābād" (the abode of Islām)."](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLCnPJmXoAA9LfP.png)
![Saatvata's tweet photo. Not just any temple, but the site one of the greatest Hindu temples in antiquity.
It was much larger than any extant Gupta-era temples in North India today (Daśāvatāra temple in Deogarh, Nācnā-Kuṭhārā temple complex [Caturmukhanātha, etc.], Bhītargāon temple in Kanpur, Lakṣmaṇa temple in Sirpur, etc.).
Unfortunately, like most significant North Indian temples (Bhojeśvara, Mārtaṇḍa, Mūlasthāna, Somanātha, etc.), it too was destroyed in the first few centuries of Islamic conquest.
The grandeur of the holy city of Mathurā and its Vāsudeva temple was described as follows by al-ʿUtbiyy.
fa-raʾā mā yuk͟hālifu l-ʿādāti wa-yaftaqiru ruwātuhā ilā š-šahādāti bal al-mušāhadāt; baladan mabniyya l-sūri min ṣammi l-ṣuk͟hūr, wa-qad ušriʿa bābāni minhā ilā l-māʾi l-muḥīṭi bih. mawḍūʿatan abniyatuhu fawqa šawāk͟hīṣi l-qilāl, ṣiyānatan lahā min maḍārri suyūli l-māʾi wa-maġāri ġuyūthi s-samāʾ.
wa-ʿan janabayhā alfu qaṣrin šabīhatin bi-sāʾiri l-abniyati fī l-withāqah, muštamilatan ʿalā buyūti aṣnāmin qad hundimat mafāṣilu aʿrāqihā bi-masāmīra tusāwī suṭūḥa l-bināʾ, wa-tuwārī mā warāʾahā mina l-ḥuzūzi taḥta l-k͟hafāʾ.
wa-fī ṣadri l-baladi baytu aṣnāmin yaḥkī ak͟hwātahu aw aḥsan, wa-yajrī majrā aḍrābihi bal atqan. lā yahtadī l-kuttābu bi-aqlāmi l-dawāti wa-lā n-naqqāšūna bi-aṭrāfi l-k͟hāmāti ilā amthālihā taḥsīnan wa-tazwīqan wa-nuqūšan tak͟hṭafu l-abṣāra barīqā.
wa-kāna fīmā kataba bihi al-Sulṭān:
annahu law arāda murīdun an yabniya mā yuʿādilu tilka l-abniyata la-ʿajaza ʿanhā bi-infāqi miʾati alfi alfi dirhamin fī muddati miʾatay sanatin ʿalā aydī ʿamalatin kamalatin wa-maharatin saḥarah.
wa-fī jumlati l-aṣnāmi k͟hamsatun min ad͟h-d͟hahabi maʿmūlatun ṭūlu k͟hamsati adhruʿ, ʿaynā wāḥidin minhā yāqūtatāni qīmatuhumā k͟hamsūna alfa dīnārin bal azyad, wa-ʿalā āk͟har yāqūtatun zarqāʾu waznuhā arbaʿu-miʾatin wa-k͟hamsūna mit͟hqālā, fa-kāna jumlatu ad͟h-d͟hahabiyyāti al-mawjūdati ʿalā aḥadi l-aṣnāmi al-mad͟hkūrati t͟hamāniyatan wa-tisʿīna alfa mit͟hqāl.
"There he witnessed what utterly defies normal human experience, forcing those who hear reports of it to demand not just testimonies, but direct eyewitness confirmation.
He found a city whose defensive walls were built from solid rock, with two massive gates flung open directly onto the surrounding waters.
Its buildings were situated high atop the prominent peaks of the mountains, specifically designed to safeguard them from the violent ravages of rushing floodwaters and the deep pooling of torrential rains from the heavens.
Along both its flanks sat a thousand palaces, matching each other in absolute structural integrity and fortification.
Within them were temple chambers housing idols, where the gaps between the rows of stone blocks had been so perfectly engineered with iron clamps that they sat entirely flush with the surface of the walls, completely concealing whatever structural grooves lay beneath them under absolute secrecy.
In the very heart of the city stood a central temple that mirrored its sister structures, or was even more splendid, and ran parallel to its counterparts, though crafted with far more absolute mastery.
Neither scribes with the pens of their inkwells nor engravers with the tips of their reed brushes could ever hope to find a way to replicate its likeness by way of beautification, gilding, or intricate carvings that snatch away the eyes with their blinding brilliance.
And included in what Sulṭān (Ġaznawī) wrote [was the statement]:
"If an intender wished to build the likes of these buildings, he would be incapable of it, even with the expenditure of one hundred million dirhams over a period of two hundred years, at the hands of master craftsmen and magicians."
Among the collection of idols were five made of gold, measuring five cubits in height. The eyes of one of them were two rubies worth fifty thousand dinars- nay, even more.
Upon another idol was a blue ruby weighing four hundred and fifty mit͟hqals. In total, the gold items found on just one of the aforementioned idols amounted to ninety-eight thousand mit͟hqals."
How did the Sulṭān Ġaznawī destroy such a massive structure?
They used a technique known as sapping.
The soldiers would would dig out the mortar and remove supporting blocks from the base of walls or columns.
They would then pack the tunnels and wooden props with bundles of brushwood and pour liquid naphtha over everything.
The weight of the massive stone roofs and upper walls would then pancake downward and collapse the entire temple into its own footprint.
Additionally, iron clamps were used to hold the stones together.
Extreme heat from the naphtha fire softens and melts the iron components while causing the surrounding stone to fracture into pieces.
A smaller temple was later constructed at the site, yet it too was destroyed under Sikandar Lodī.
Hindus were barred from performing ritual ablutions in the Yamunā river, local barbers were barred from performing tonsure of Hindu pilgrims, mosques and commercial markets were set up directly opposite the bathing stairs, and the idols were handed over to butchers to be used as meat-weights.
These restrictions were lifted during the reign of Akbar and Vīr Siṅgh Dev of Orchā built a grand temple at the site during the reign Jahāngīr.
This temple was destroyed by Awrangzēb and an ʿĪdgāh/Masjid constructed thereupon.
The city was also renamed to Islāmābād, though this remained a strictly "daftarī" title and the residents of the city still referred to it as Mathurā:
"In this same realm of dignity (karāmat), the justice-nurturing, oppression-overthrowing, truth-aware, equity-increasing, tyrant-destroying monarch [viz. Awrangzēb ʿĀlamgīr], the morning-breeze of triumph which wipes away the oppressor's abode and the reviver of the religion [viz. Islām] of the Best of Mankind [viz. Prophet Muḥammad] issued a fateful yarlīġ for the destruction of the temple of Mathurā known as the Dēhrā of Kēśav Rāī.
This decree was carried out in a short time through the great efforts of the officials, so that its destruction was firmly brought from potential into action and in its place, a lofty-founded mosque was constructed, at the cost of a considerable sum, replacing a house of misguidance with a newly established building of noble adornment...
Praise be to God for the religion of Islam! (al-ḥamdu li l-Lāhi ʿalā dīni l-Islām) For in this auspicious era of the eradicator of polytheism and rebellion, such a magnificent and seemingly impossible feat emerged from the hidden realm into the field of manifestation.
Seeing this strength of religious patronage and the majesty of worship of Allāh, the prideful Rājās' breath was caught in their throats. They stood still in bewilderment like figures with their faces to the wall.
The idols and icons, both great and small, adorned with precious jewels, which had been installed in that temple of the polytheists and gathering place of the irreligious were brought to Akbarābād (i.e. Āgrā).
There, they were buried beneath the steps of the mosque of Nawāb Qudsiyya Bēgam Sāḥib, so that they might forever be trampled underfoot.
The name of Mathurā was recorded in the registers/ledgers and proclaimed by word of mouth as "Islāmābād" (the abode of Islām)."](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLCnMV3WkAAvcj_.png)
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@laalkanval Kahsmiri pandits don’t hate, it’s clearly an islamic zealotry issue
@hoomantobeekind @raman23314940 @TARUNspeakss Abe langar we live in the same land my ancestors have lived for 1000 of years unlike you lassis who were kicked out of punjab by your muslim bretherns. And we have ruled our land for ever something a poopjabi like you will never understand.
@raman23314940 @hoomantobeekind @TARUNspeakss Abe lassi afghans and other central asians fucked you guys for centuries you couldn’t do a shit. And they are not my women. Keep that ooga booga history to yourself.
@raman23314940 @hoomantobeekind @TARUNspeakss I am not a rajput chutiye lassi, my ancestors lead by balwant singh established sovereign hindu rule in eastern up fighting nawab of oudh. Your own gurus campaigned for mughals. And rajput history is way more better than yours, don’t even compare yourselves with them.
@aakash_rewari Dude from rewari saying this lol
@hoomantobeekind @TARUNspeakss Abe chutiye my ancestors in benaras fought mohemmedans and established their own rule, google Narayan dynasty who ruled Benaras. They weren’t even aware about your kinds, stick to your muslim majority punjab, no one gives a shit outside of it.
@hoomantobeekind @TARUNspeakss Assi hindua nu bachaya saar, abe chup hoja langar, you didn’t save anyone, you had no aukat to save anyone, your sanjha punjab is muslim majority, save your own ass first. My ancestors didn’t even know about the existence of langars and you saved them🤣
@hoomantobeekind @TARUNspeakss Abe lassi your state is financially burdened, you don’t provide shit to anyone except chitta and khalistani ideology. Your people vote on religion basis more than anyone, not a single hindu cm in punjab.
@Amit24TD It was a magdhan upper caste elite religion, why are you marathi subalterns kanging about our magadhan history?
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Not just any temple, but the site one of the greatest Hindu temples in antiquity.
It was much larger than any extant Gupta-era temples in North India today (Daśāvatāra temple in Deogarh, Nācnā-Kuṭhārā temple complex [Caturmukhanātha, etc.], Bhītargāon temple in Kanpur, Lakṣmaṇa temple in Sirpur, etc.).
Unfortunately, like most significant North Indian temples (Bhojeśvara, Mārtaṇḍa, Mūlasthāna, Somanātha, etc.), it too was destroyed in the first few centuries of Islamic conquest.
The grandeur of the holy city of Mathurā and its Vāsudeva temple was described as follows by al-ʿUtbiyy.
fa-raʾā mā yuk͟hālifu l-ʿādāti wa-yaftaqiru ruwātuhā ilā š-šahādāti bal al-mušāhadāt; baladan mabniyya l-sūri min ṣammi l-ṣuk͟hūr, wa-qad ušriʿa bābāni minhā ilā l-māʾi l-muḥīṭi bih. mawḍūʿatan abniyatuhu fawqa šawāk͟hīṣi l-qilāl, ṣiyānatan lahā min maḍārri suyūli l-māʾi wa-maġāri ġuyūthi s-samāʾ.
wa-ʿan janabayhā alfu qaṣrin šabīhatin bi-sāʾiri l-abniyati fī l-withāqah, muštamilatan ʿalā buyūti aṣnāmin qad hundimat mafāṣilu aʿrāqihā bi-masāmīra tusāwī suṭūḥa l-bināʾ, wa-tuwārī mā warāʾahā mina l-ḥuzūzi taḥta l-k͟hafāʾ.
wa-fī ṣadri l-baladi baytu aṣnāmin yaḥkī ak͟hwātahu aw aḥsan, wa-yajrī majrā aḍrābihi bal atqan. lā yahtadī l-kuttābu bi-aqlāmi l-dawāti wa-lā n-naqqāšūna bi-aṭrāfi l-k͟hāmāti ilā amthālihā taḥsīnan wa-tazwīqan wa-nuqūšan tak͟hṭafu l-abṣāra barīqā.
wa-kāna fīmā kataba bihi al-Sulṭān:
annahu law arāda murīdun an yabniya mā yuʿādilu tilka l-abniyata la-ʿajaza ʿanhā bi-infāqi miʾati alfi alfi dirhamin fī muddati miʾatay sanatin ʿalā aydī ʿamalatin kamalatin wa-maharatin saḥarah.
wa-fī jumlati l-aṣnāmi k͟hamsatun min ad͟h-d͟hahabi maʿmūlatun ṭūlu k͟hamsati adhruʿ, ʿaynā wāḥidin minhā yāqūtatāni qīmatuhumā k͟hamsūna alfa dīnārin bal azyad, wa-ʿalā āk͟har yāqūtatun zarqāʾu waznuhā arbaʿu-miʾatin wa-k͟hamsūna mit͟hqālā, fa-kāna jumlatu ad͟h-d͟hahabiyyāti al-mawjūdati ʿalā aḥadi l-aṣnāmi al-mad͟hkūrati t͟hamāniyatan wa-tisʿīna alfa mit͟hqāl.
"There he witnessed what utterly defies normal human experience, forcing those who hear reports of it to demand not just testimonies, but direct eyewitness confirmation.
He found a city whose defensive walls were built from solid rock, with two massive gates flung open directly onto the surrounding waters.
Its buildings were situated high atop the prominent peaks of the mountains, specifically designed to safeguard them from the violent ravages of rushing floodwaters and the deep pooling of torrential rains from the heavens.
Along both its flanks sat a thousand palaces, matching each other in absolute structural integrity and fortification.
Within them were temple chambers housing idols, where the gaps between the rows of stone blocks had been so perfectly engineered with iron clamps that they sat entirely flush with the surface of the walls, completely concealing whatever structural grooves lay beneath them under absolute secrecy.
In the very heart of the city stood a central temple that mirrored its sister structures, or was even more splendid, and ran parallel to its counterparts, though crafted with far more absolute mastery.
Neither scribes with the pens of their inkwells nor engravers with the tips of their reed brushes could ever hope to find a way to replicate its likeness by way of beautification, gilding, or intricate carvings that snatch away the eyes with their blinding brilliance.
And included in what Sulṭān (Ġaznawī) wrote [was the statement]:
"If an intender wished to build the likes of these buildings, he would be incapable of it, even with the expenditure of one hundred million dirhams over a period of two hundred years, at the hands of master craftsmen and magicians."
Among the collection of idols were five made of gold, measuring five cubits in height. The eyes of one of them were two rubies worth fifty thousand dinars- nay, even more.
Upon another idol was a blue ruby weighing four hundred and fifty mit͟hqals. In total, the gold items found on just one of the aforementioned idols amounted to ninety-eight thousand mit͟hqals."
How did the Sulṭān Ġaznawī destroy such a massive structure?
They used a technique known as sapping.
The soldiers would would dig out the mortar and remove supporting blocks from the base of walls or columns.
They would then pack the tunnels and wooden props with bundles of brushwood and pour liquid naphtha over everything.
The weight of the massive stone roofs and upper walls would then pancake downward and collapse the entire temple into its own footprint.
Additionally, iron clamps were used to hold the stones together.
Extreme heat from the naphtha fire softens and melts the iron components while causing the surrounding stone to fracture into pieces.
A smaller temple was later constructed at the site, yet it too was destroyed under Sikandar Lodī.
Hindus were barred from performing ritual ablutions in the Yamunā river, local barbers were barred from performing tonsure of Hindu pilgrims, mosques and commercial markets were set up directly opposite the bathing stairs, and the idols were handed over to butchers to be used as meat-weights.
These restrictions were lifted during the reign of Akbar and Vīr Siṅgh Dev of Orchā built a grand temple at the site during the reign Jahāngīr.
This temple was destroyed by Awrangzēb and an ʿĪdgāh/Masjid constructed thereupon.
The city was also renamed to Islāmābād, though this remained a strictly "daftarī" title and the residents of the city still referred to it as Mathurā:
"In this same realm of dignity (karāmat), the justice-nurturing, oppression-overthrowing, truth-aware, equity-increasing, tyrant-destroying monarch [viz. Awrangzēb ʿĀlamgīr], the morning-breeze of triumph which wipes away the oppressor's abode and the reviver of the religion [viz. Islām] of the Best of Mankind [viz. Prophet Muḥammad] issued a fateful yarlīġ for the destruction of the temple of Mathurā known as the Dēhrā of Kēśav Rāī.
This decree was carried out in a short time through the great efforts of the officials, so that its destruction was firmly brought from potential into action and in its place, a lofty-founded mosque was constructed, at the cost of a considerable sum, replacing a house of misguidance with a newly established building of noble adornment...
Praise be to God for the religion of Islam! (al-ḥamdu li l-Lāhi ʿalā dīni l-Islām) For in this auspicious era of the eradicator of polytheism and rebellion, such a magnificent and seemingly impossible feat emerged from the hidden realm into the field of manifestation.
Seeing this strength of religious patronage and the majesty of worship of Allāh, the prideful Rājās' breath was caught in their throats. They stood still in bewilderment like figures with their faces to the wall.
The idols and icons, both great and small, adorned with precious jewels, which had been installed in that temple of the polytheists and gathering place of the irreligious were brought to Akbarābād (i.e. Āgrā).
There, they were buried beneath the steps of the mosque of Nawāb Qudsiyya Bēgam Sāḥib, so that they might forever be trampled underfoot.
The name of Mathurā was recorded in the registers/ledgers and proclaimed by word of mouth as "Islāmābād" (the abode of Islām)."
![Saatvata's tweet photo. Not just any temple, but the site one of the greatest Hindu temples in antiquity.
It was much larger than any extant Gupta-era temples in North India today (Daśāvatāra temple in Deogarh, Nācnā-Kuṭhārā temple complex [Caturmukhanātha, etc.], Bhītargāon temple in Kanpur, Lakṣmaṇa temple in Sirpur, etc.).
Unfortunately, like most significant North Indian temples (Bhojeśvara, Mārtaṇḍa, Mūlasthāna, Somanātha, etc.), it too was destroyed in the first few centuries of Islamic conquest.
The grandeur of the holy city of Mathurā and its Vāsudeva temple was described as follows by al-ʿUtbiyy.
fa-raʾā mā yuk͟hālifu l-ʿādāti wa-yaftaqiru ruwātuhā ilā š-šahādāti bal al-mušāhadāt; baladan mabniyya l-sūri min ṣammi l-ṣuk͟hūr, wa-qad ušriʿa bābāni minhā ilā l-māʾi l-muḥīṭi bih. mawḍūʿatan abniyatuhu fawqa šawāk͟hīṣi l-qilāl, ṣiyānatan lahā min maḍārri suyūli l-māʾi wa-maġāri ġuyūthi s-samāʾ.
wa-ʿan janabayhā alfu qaṣrin šabīhatin bi-sāʾiri l-abniyati fī l-withāqah, muštamilatan ʿalā buyūti aṣnāmin qad hundimat mafāṣilu aʿrāqihā bi-masāmīra tusāwī suṭūḥa l-bināʾ, wa-tuwārī mā warāʾahā mina l-ḥuzūzi taḥta l-k͟hafāʾ.
wa-fī ṣadri l-baladi baytu aṣnāmin yaḥkī ak͟hwātahu aw aḥsan, wa-yajrī majrā aḍrābihi bal atqan. lā yahtadī l-kuttābu bi-aqlāmi l-dawāti wa-lā n-naqqāšūna bi-aṭrāfi l-k͟hāmāti ilā amthālihā taḥsīnan wa-tazwīqan wa-nuqūšan tak͟hṭafu l-abṣāra barīqā.
wa-kāna fīmā kataba bihi al-Sulṭān:
annahu law arāda murīdun an yabniya mā yuʿādilu tilka l-abniyata la-ʿajaza ʿanhā bi-infāqi miʾati alfi alfi dirhamin fī muddati miʾatay sanatin ʿalā aydī ʿamalatin kamalatin wa-maharatin saḥarah.
wa-fī jumlati l-aṣnāmi k͟hamsatun min ad͟h-d͟hahabi maʿmūlatun ṭūlu k͟hamsati adhruʿ, ʿaynā wāḥidin minhā yāqūtatāni qīmatuhumā k͟hamsūna alfa dīnārin bal azyad, wa-ʿalā āk͟har yāqūtatun zarqāʾu waznuhā arbaʿu-miʾatin wa-k͟hamsūna mit͟hqālā, fa-kāna jumlatu ad͟h-d͟hahabiyyāti al-mawjūdati ʿalā aḥadi l-aṣnāmi al-mad͟hkūrati t͟hamāniyatan wa-tisʿīna alfa mit͟hqāl.
"There he witnessed what utterly defies normal human experience, forcing those who hear reports of it to demand not just testimonies, but direct eyewitness confirmation.
He found a city whose defensive walls were built from solid rock, with two massive gates flung open directly onto the surrounding waters.
Its buildings were situated high atop the prominent peaks of the mountains, specifically designed to safeguard them from the violent ravages of rushing floodwaters and the deep pooling of torrential rains from the heavens.
Along both its flanks sat a thousand palaces, matching each other in absolute structural integrity and fortification.
Within them were temple chambers housing idols, where the gaps between the rows of stone blocks had been so perfectly engineered with iron clamps that they sat entirely flush with the surface of the walls, completely concealing whatever structural grooves lay beneath them under absolute secrecy.
In the very heart of the city stood a central temple that mirrored its sister structures, or was even more splendid, and ran parallel to its counterparts, though crafted with far more absolute mastery.
Neither scribes with the pens of their inkwells nor engravers with the tips of their reed brushes could ever hope to find a way to replicate its likeness by way of beautification, gilding, or intricate carvings that snatch away the eyes with their blinding brilliance.
And included in what Sulṭān (Ġaznawī) wrote [was the statement]:
"If an intender wished to build the likes of these buildings, he would be incapable of it, even with the expenditure of one hundred million dirhams over a period of two hundred years, at the hands of master craftsmen and magicians."
Among the collection of idols were five made of gold, measuring five cubits in height. The eyes of one of them were two rubies worth fifty thousand dinars- nay, even more.
Upon another idol was a blue ruby weighing four hundred and fifty mit͟hqals. In total, the gold items found on just one of the aforementioned idols amounted to ninety-eight thousand mit͟hqals."
How did the Sulṭān Ġaznawī destroy such a massive structure?
They used a technique known as sapping.
The soldiers would would dig out the mortar and remove supporting blocks from the base of walls or columns.
They would then pack the tunnels and wooden props with bundles of brushwood and pour liquid naphtha over everything.
The weight of the massive stone roofs and upper walls would then pancake downward and collapse the entire temple into its own footprint.
Additionally, iron clamps were used to hold the stones together.
Extreme heat from the naphtha fire softens and melts the iron components while causing the surrounding stone to fracture into pieces.
A smaller temple was later constructed at the site, yet it too was destroyed under Sikandar Lodī.
Hindus were barred from performing ritual ablutions in the Yamunā river, local barbers were barred from performing tonsure of Hindu pilgrims, mosques and commercial markets were set up directly opposite the bathing stairs, and the idols were handed over to butchers to be used as meat-weights.
These restrictions were lifted during the reign of Akbar and Vīr Siṅgh Dev of Orchā built a grand temple at the site during the reign Jahāngīr.
This temple was destroyed by Awrangzēb and an ʿĪdgāh/Masjid constructed thereupon.
The city was also renamed to Islāmābād, though this remained a strictly "daftarī" title and the residents of the city still referred to it as Mathurā:
"In this same realm of dignity (karāmat), the justice-nurturing, oppression-overthrowing, truth-aware, equity-increasing, tyrant-destroying monarch [viz. Awrangzēb ʿĀlamgīr], the morning-breeze of triumph which wipes away the oppressor's abode and the reviver of the religion [viz. Islām] of the Best of Mankind [viz. Prophet Muḥammad] issued a fateful yarlīġ for the destruction of the temple of Mathurā known as the Dēhrā of Kēśav Rāī.
This decree was carried out in a short time through the great efforts of the officials, so that its destruction was firmly brought from potential into action and in its place, a lofty-founded mosque was constructed, at the cost of a considerable sum, replacing a house of misguidance with a newly established building of noble adornment...
Praise be to God for the religion of Islam! (al-ḥamdu li l-Lāhi ʿalā dīni l-Islām) For in this auspicious era of the eradicator of polytheism and rebellion, such a magnificent and seemingly impossible feat emerged from the hidden realm into the field of manifestation.
Seeing this strength of religious patronage and the majesty of worship of Allāh, the prideful Rājās' breath was caught in their throats. They stood still in bewilderment like figures with their faces to the wall.
The idols and icons, both great and small, adorned with precious jewels, which had been installed in that temple of the polytheists and gathering place of the irreligious were brought to Akbarābād (i.e. Āgrā).
There, they were buried beneath the steps of the mosque of Nawāb Qudsiyya Bēgam Sāḥib, so that they might forever be trampled underfoot.
The name of Mathurā was recorded in the registers/ledgers and proclaimed by word of mouth as "Islāmābād" (the abode of Islām)."](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLCoTvqX0AAkG_f.png)
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