Hindu temples in Multan

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	EXPEDTXT
		In the 10th century, larger temples were built under the patronage of the Hindu Shahi kings in the spectacular fortress at Amb (Fig.
		In this respect the models at Mari resemble the superstructure actually built in the 7th century for Bilot's temple D rather than either superstructure built at Mari in the 8th century for temples A and B (Figs.
		The paired temples in the foreground (temples B and C) are of the 10th century.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /arth/meister/expedtxt.htm (3296 words)

	Let the Mute Witnesses Speak
		There is little doubt that all masjids and mazãrs erected under the direct or indirect patronage of these sultans, particularly in places where Hindu population predominates, stand on the sites of Hindu temples.
		Bukhara, Samarkand, Balkh, Kabul, Ghazni, Srinagar, Peshawar, Lahore, Multan, Patan, Ajmer, Delhi, Agra Dhar, Mandu, Budaun, Kanauj, Biharsharif, Patna, Lakhnauti, Ellichpur, Daulatabad, Gulbarga, Bidar, Bijapur, Golconda-to mention only a few of the more famous Hindu capitals-lost their native character and became nests of a closed creed waging incessant war on a catholic culture.
		It is, therefore, not an accident that the masjids and khAnqAhs built by or for the sufis who reached a place in the first phase of Islamic invasion occupy the sites of Hindu temples and, quite often, contain temple materials in their structures.
	www.bharatvani.org /books/htemples1/ch10.htm (3296 words)

	Muhammad bin Qasim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Other accounts also state that Qasim demolished many Hindu temples and aboloshed idols, as they are seen as great evils in Islam (shirk).
		He succeeded partly because Dahir was an unpopular Hindu king that ruled over a Buddhist majority.
		The forces of Muhammad bin Qasim defeated the Hindu Raja Dahir in alliance with Jat Regiments and other Buddhist Rajas, and took Dahirs daughters captive (they were sent as a gift to Caliph).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muhammad_bin_Qasim (885 words)

	Op-Ed
		There is now no trace of these Hindu temples and shrines either because those were destroyed or their devotees left after the arrival of Muslims, causing the temples and shrines to decay and disappear.
		Multan was the first town of Punjab to be captured by Muhammad Bin Qasim in 711 AD.
		Qasim bagh, the small park, bearing the name of Mohammad Bin Qasim, to the south after which the Fort came to be named later, was not known as such in 1953.
	www.newagebd.com /2005/aug/15/oped.html (2494 words)

	South Asia-North, 500-1000 A.D. Timeline of Art History The Metropolitan Museum of Art
		Cave-temples dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva are built at Ellora and Aurangabad in Maharashtra.
		The presence of Islam in South Asia commences with the Arab conquest of Sindh and Multan (in present-day Pakistan) in 711–13; contact continues through Arab trade on the western coast of the subcontinent.
		The religion that we now call Hinduism begins to take recognizable shape in this period and is patronized by the powerful regional kingdoms that rise up in the wake of Gupta power.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/06/ssn/ht06ssn.htm (834 words)

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