Tag: history

Al-Beruni was born in 973, in Khwarizm in present-day Uzbekistan. In 1017, when Sultan Mahmud invaded Khwarizm, he took several scholars and poets back to his capital, Ghazni. Al-Biruni was one of them. Al-Biruni had accompanied with Muhammad of Ghazni to India.

Mahmud brought whole libraries from Ray and Isfahan to Ghazni. He even demanded that the Khwarizmshah court send its men of learning to Ghazni. Mahmud patronized the notable poet Firdausi, who after labouring 27 years, went to Ghazni and presented the Shahnameh to him. Nothing is chronicled about the court poets of the other two kings, hence, incorrect. 

Mahmud Ghazni was the ruler of Ghazni. He was the first Turk invader. Between A.D. 1010 and 1025, he attacked only temple towns in Northern India. He attacked India 17 times during the course of 25 years. The most devastating invasion of Mahmud was the attack on the Somnath Temple in Kathiawar in 1025 A.D. It was his 16th invasion. 

Mahmud Ghazni plundered the Somnath temple in 1024. The temple was dedicated to Lord Shiva. Ghazini broke the shiva linga and looted the wealth of the temple. 

Shore temple which was built in the years 700–728 AD, is a temple located in Mahabalipuram, a village located in South Chennai of Tamilnadu. It is so named because the temple faces Bay of Bengal. It is one of the oldest structural stone temples of South India.