 | Sir Henry Miers Elliot - India - 1869 - 634 pages
...quantity of gold yielded by the bodies of these idols, was ninety-eight thousand three hundred miskals. The idols of silver amounted to two hundred, but they could not bo weighed without breaking them to pieces and putting them into scales. The Sultan gave orders that... | |
 | Frederic Salmon Growse - Mathura (India : District) - 1883 - 550 pages
...hundred years, even though the most able and experienced workmen were employed.' Orders were given that all the temples should be burnt with naphtha and fire and levelled with the ground." The city was given up to plunder for twenty days. Among the spoil are said to have... | |
 | William Crooke - Ethnology - 1897 - 466 pages
...quantity of gold yielded by the bodies of these idols was ninety-eight thousand three hundred Miskals. The idols of silver amounted to two hundred, but they...Sultan gave orders that all the temples should be burned and levelled with the ground." * Thence he went to Munj, which is believed to be lower down... | |
 | Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1920 - 866 pages
...idols included ' five of red gold, each five yards high ', with eyes formed of priceless jewels. ' The Sultan gave orders that all the temples should be burnt with naphtha and fire, and levelled with the ground.' Thus perished works of art which must have been among the noblest monuments of ancient... | |
 | Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1920 - 880 pages
...idols included ' five of red gold, each five yards high ', with eyes formed of priceless jewels. ' The Sultan gave orders that all the temples should be burnt with naphtha and fire, and levelled with the ground.' Thus perished works of art which must have been among the noblest monuments of ancient... | |
 | Ramesh Chandra Majumdar - India - 1977 - 580 pages
...quantity of gold yielded by the bodies of these idols was ninety-eight thousand three hundred miskals. The idols of silver amounted to two hundred, but they could not be weighed wthout breaking them into pieces and putting them into scales. The Sultan gave orders that all temples... | |
 | F.S. Growse - Mathura (India : District) - 1996 - 544 pages
...hundred year?, even though the most able and experienced workmen were employed.' Orders were given that all the temples should be burnt with naphtha and fire and levelled with the ground." The city was given up to plunder for twenty days. Among the spoil are said to have... | |
 | William Crooke - History - 1998 - 414 pages
...quantity of gold yielded by the bodies of these idols was ninety-eight thousand three hundred Miskais. The idols of silver amounted to two hundred, but they...Sultan gave orders that all the temples should be burned and levelled with the ground." 1 Thence he went to Munj, which is believed to be lower down... | |
 | Anthony Kennedy Warder - Buddhism - 2004 - 622 pages
...would occupy two hundred years, even though the most experienced and able workmen were employed." .... The Sultan gave orders that all the temples should be burnt with naphtha and fire, and levelled with the ground' 1 'Many of the inhabitants of the place fled and were scattered abroad .... Many of... | |
 | Brian Ruhe - Buddhism - 2005 - 518 pages
...occupy two hundred years to construct, even though the most experienced and able workmen were employed.' The Sultan gave orders that all the temples should be burnt with naphtha and fire, and levelled with the ground. Many of the inhabitants of the place fled and were scattered abroad. Many of them... | |
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The idols of silver amounted to two hundred, but they could not be weighed without breaking them to pieces and putting them into scales. The Sultan gave orders that all the temples should be burnt with naphtha and fire, and levelled to the ground. 