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DESTRUCTION OF THE THIRD TEMPLE |
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formidable army, exultant with confidence, which Mabmud had led against Gurjaradesha,
returned thinned in number and drooping in spirit. Ultimately, Mahmud, after a short halt
at Multan, reached Ghazni on April 2, 1026. This expedition was a disastrous end to a
brilliant series of raids. Mahmud gave up his designs on India thereafter. The later panegyrists of Ghazni loved to sing of this episode as a
great feat of Mahmud when, after two hundred years, it had come to be invested with
fanciful details.A wave of righteous hatred against the invader swept over the whole of
Northern India. |
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