richly-jewelled idols taken from the pagan temples were transferred to A'gra, and there placed beneath the steps leading to the Nawab Begam Sahib's mosque, in order that they might ever be pressed under foot by the true believers. Mattra changed its name... The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians: The Muhammadan Period - Page 185 by Sir Henry Miers Elliot - 1877 Full view -
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