issuesonline_worldwide] Lord shiva idol”s broken pieces put under foot at mecca and medina.....Saturday, 7 October, 2006 3:02 PM

Repeating the Cruel history of the past would never make present and future correct AND BRIGHT by fixing the responsibilities of the muslim rulers who invaded, ruled and established the equal value system in India where there was only system of evil that never given equality to daliths and lower castes in India on the present muslims who have been kept away like the daliths in past on the name of fake nationalism by the right wing hindu extremists in the interest of the few rich Brahmin class in India

Coming to the point ,ghazni mohammed ,who carried out the great expedition to India on 17 th october1024, along with his army which was more than 30000 on his desirability to strike the center of Hinduism at somnath temple where the moon god of the brahiminsm rested .
In somanth temple, one thousand brahmans were in the service, three hundred barbers, and three hundred and fifty women servants to the god but in practice the women servants were to dance before the lingam shiva idol for the sexual pleasure of the Brahmin priests.

The water to wash the shiva idol in somantha temple was to bring from ganga ,750 miles distance by the servants ,of them were the women mostly .

One thousand villages revenue was the source to the temple for the priests on the name of shiva. The jewelry was well known to the entire area for its richness.

Gazni reached ajmer on November 20. on receipt of the arrival the raja fed away the army plunders all including the supplies but did not touch the fortress.

“when the work of blood was finished mahmud entered the temple, the gloom which was delivered by the light from costly lamps which flickered on the fifty-six polished pillars supporting the roof, on the gems which adorned the idol, and on a huge golden chain, the bells attached to which summoned to their duties the relays attendant priests. As the eyes of conqueror fell up on the hewn stone, three yards in height above the pavement, which has received the adoration of generations of hindus, he raised his mace in the pious zeal and dealt in a heavy blow. Some historians relate that when he commanded that the idol should be shattered the brahmans offered to redeem it with an enormous sum of money and that their preyers were seconded by the argument of his courtiers who urged that the destruction of one idolwould not extinguish idolatory and that the money might be emplyed for pious purposes. To both mahmud replied that he could be a breaker,not a seller
of idols, and the work of destruction went forward. When the idol was broken as under the gems worth more than a hundred times the ransom offered by the brahmans were found concealed in a cavity within it and mahmud’s iconoclastic zeal meterially rewarded; but this story appears to be amembellishment, by later historians, of the earlier chronicles. Of the fragments of the idol two were sent to ghazni to form steps at the entrence of the great mosque and the royal palace, and two are said to have been sent to Mecca and Medina, where they were placed in public streets to be trodden underfoot.’


Source;page no 24-25, the Cambridge history of India volume 3

Ayub mohammed