Destruction of Hindu Temples
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Most of our temples were covered with gold and of course their treasuries were filled with gold and precious metals, stones and more. Mahmud of Ghazni is said to have invaded and raided, the Somnath Temple 17 times for its wealth, the last time around completely razing it to the ground. Thus it was looted, destroyed, and resurrected several times. Home to one of the 12 Jyotirlingas of Bharat, the temple city of Somnath or Prabhas Patan is situated in the state of Gujarat on the Arabian Sea. Of course, the Somnath temple was also completely covered with gold when the barbarians' raids began. Naturally, the on the realisation that Bharat was a golden-egg laying swan, plunderers and invaders kept coming for thousands of years.
