Hindu temples:What happened to them

[4Vikram]

When Xuanzang visited India c.1400 years ago, he found temples,new and old, everywhere. He found Hindu temples(devalaya) from Bamiyan to the very tip of Southern India Today, there is hardly any old temple in North India. The very few pre-Islamic temples are either ruined or belong to terrian that is scarcely populated and accessible only by difficulty What happened to Hindu temples? This pictorial presentation tries to answer the question

Ruins of an ancient surya temple excavarted near Kabul(Khair Kaneh) Afghanistan. Excavated in 1938, Khair Khana(Kabul,Afghanistan) was a major Surya temple (2 sq. ha) from c.400 AD to c.1000 AD. Khair Kaneh was a grand surya temple until it was sacked by Ghazni nearly 1000 years ago

Excavated object at Khair Kaneh: A marble statue of Surya flanked by attendants Danda and Pingala.Aruna riding the chariot

Excavated object at Khair Kaneh:: Another Marble statue of standing Surya flanked by his attendants Danda and pingala

 

Excavated object at Khair Kaneh:Marble statue of God Skanda standing beside shiva whose only feet survive

 

A Mosque at Tepe Skandar.( a village in Afghanistan). In mid 20th century,

a large number of Hindu ruins were found around this Masjid and an

old fort which prompted archaeologists to excavate the site further

      In mid 20th century, a large number of Hindu ruins were found around in the vicinity of a mosque in Tepe

Skandar(Afghanistan) which prompted archaeologists to excavate the site further This decapitated three eyed Durga head was found in the vicinity of Masjid and an old fort. Artistically, the Durga head belongs to Shahi period(c.700 CE) of eastern Afghanistan This discovery prompted archaeologists to excavate the site further                          

Finds: A marble image of Uma Maheshwara unearthed at Tepe skandar. Dated to c.600 AD.
This temple was destroyed during the jihadi invasions of Mahmud Ghazni. East Afghanistan bore the brunt of earliest Turkic invasions. Islamic chronicles of the period state that Kabul-Ghazni region marked the boundary between Dar Ul Islam and Hindustan

A marble image of Durga(c.800 AD) unearthed at Tepe skandar    

Picture:An archeologist and the shiva linga he unearthed at this ancient shaivite shrine of Afghanistan

Idol of Brahma(c.11th Century CE) unearthed on the footsteps of Mosque at Ghazni(Afghanistan) The idol was placed upon the footsteps of the mosque and trod by pious for centuries. Image courtesy @Italian Oriental Archaeology Department (CS 1525.5)

A fragment of Mother goddess figurine (Durga/Nana) discovered under the Khona Masjid at Afghanistan Khona was a site of temple of mother goddess before its destruction and conversion to a mosque

[4Vikram]

Ali Masjid, Khyber(Pak-Afghan border) had as its basement a Stupa and was abound by idols of Buddha and Bodhisattvas

Picture was taken when British wrested this region from Afghans in 1878

The stupa belonged to Kushan period and was visited by Xuangzang on his way to India. It seems to have been destroyed and converted to a mosque during the reign of Ghanznavids

Ali Masjid, Khyber(Pak-Afghan border) had as its basement a Stupa and was abound by idols of Buddha and Bodhisattvas Picture was taken when British wrested this region from Afghans in 1878 The stupa belonged to Kushan period and was visited by Xuangzang on his way to India. It seems to have been destroyed and converted to a mosque during the reign of Ghaznavids

An Afghan man stands beside the excavated statue of great Kushan King Kanishka. At the Kushan temple near Surkh Kotal (Afghanistan) Although the ruins of the temple do not exist anymore, but the Rabatak inscription found just outside the site gives us a lot of information. Kanishka had built this temple in early second century CE. It housed gods such as Shiva(Oesho), Uma, Skanda as well as of host of Iranian deities It also had life size images of Kushan ancestors as well as the king himself. All the archaeological team could salvage at the site was this decapitated statue of Kanishka. It was subsequently moved to Kabul museum
 

This idol does not exist anymore. It was destroyed by Taliban in 2001

 

As one enters the old city Fondukistan in Afghanistan, once chances upon this ruin of an ancient fort whose only arch remains

This is a sculpture of Shiva and parvati and marks the entrance of a former Buddhist monastery of Afghanistan. The site yielded many sculptures and was artistically way ahead of its time. They are dated to early Shahi Period. The site was sacked by Mahmud Ghazni

Built c.1048 CE, the Mahmud Ghaznavi mosque at Odegram(Swat) in Khyber Pakhthunkhwa region near Afghan-Pak border is the third oldest mosque of Pakistan and the oldest mosque of Gandhara The mosque was entirely constructed from the materials of Raja Gira fort and temple that previously occupied the site. The settlements continued until 14th century and it is a functional mosque even today

 

Built c.1048 CE, the Mahmud Ghaznavi mosque at Odegram(Swat) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region near Afghan-Pak border is the third oldest mosque of Pakistan and the oldest mosque of Gandhara The mosque was entirely constructed from the materials of Raja Gira fort and temple that previously occupied the site. The settlements continued until 14th century and it is a functional mosque even today After destroying the extant stupa and fort, mosque was built out of its materials. Once such fragment survives on the walls of this mosque

When Xuanzang visited Taxila around 1400 years ago, he found a flourishing centre with numerous Buddhist stupas and Hindu temples These stupas and temples fell victim to the jihadi iconoclastic fury of Ghaznavids. Their ruins are dotted all over the erstwhile Gandhara region today called Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan.

[ICANWIN]

though unfortunate

[Anta Assamey]

[Spartan]

Anta Assamey

[bommidailu]

Good post babai ..             Mughal gallu manollani baga dobbesaru.  Imagine if HIndus won all those wars with Mughals and British . we would have been such a huge and powerful country.

Surprising that  Kanishka empire existed till  Afghanistan area.

If the HIndu kingdon was flourishing till Afghan Area , where did the mughals come from ? 

[micxas]

 

[LordOfMud]

gee...thaadu copy modi ki pettu......

[ICANWIN]

28 minutes ago, bommidailu said:

Good post babai ..             Mughal gallu manollani baga dobbesaru.  Imagine if HIndus won all those wars with Mughals and British . we would have been such a huge and powerful country.

Surprising that  Kanishka empire existed till  Afghanistan area.

If the HIndu kingdon was flourishing till Afghan Area , where did the mughals come from ? 

even gopi chand movie lo chupincharu kada man it existed in pak  ani..forgot name though..

Taj mahal was built on shiva temple antaru...enno contro videos unnayi on youtube and they stopped letting ppl in ...lotus avi architecture lo kuda unnayi...but ivi appadiki bayatiki ravu..political pressues valla ila samadhi ayipotayi asalu real facts

[shamsher_007]

23 minutes ago, bommidailu said:

Good post babai ..             Mughal gallu manollani baga dobbesaru.  Imagine if HIndus won all those wars with Mughals and British . we would have been such a huge and powerful country.

Surprising that  Kanishka empire existed till  Afghanistan area.

If the HIndu kingdon was flourishing till Afghan Area , where did the mughals come from ? 

mughals vachindhe babar tho, babar from uzbekisthan area.

manavallu appatlo afghanisthan varaku paalincharu

[shamsher_007]

3 minutes ago, ICANWIN said:

even gopi chand movie lo chupincharu kada man it existed in pak  ani..forgot name though..

Taj mahal was built on shiva temple antaru...enno contro videos unnayi on youtube and they stopped letting ppl in ...lotus avi architecture lo kuda unnayi...but ivi appadiki bayatiki ravu..political pressues valla ila samadhi ayipotayi asalu real facts

TRue man,

macqua lo kuda darga daggara oka stone untundi, behind of that stone, linga rupamlo oka stone untundanta.source from utube

[ICANWIN]

2 minutes ago, shamsher_007 said:

TRue man,

macqua lo kuda darga daggara oka stone untundi, behind of that stone, linga rupamlo oka stone untundanta.source from utube

I see...

Archeology dept vallu religion and politics ani alochinchakunda real history bayatiki teste bavuntundi ...not for sake of hinduism or any religion but for world history

[shamsher_007]

1 minute ago, ICANWIN said:

I see...

Archeology dept vallu religion and politics ani alochinchakunda real history bayatiki teste bavuntundi ...not for sake of hinduism or any religion but for world history

exactly man, 

@ICANWIN do you knw about ajantha ellora caves.

 

[LordOfMud]

Avv...Avv...

......Gippudu sudaala.....BJP UP lo Ram temple kaadataara ani ?.........

[YeddiBK]

6 minutes ago, ICANWIN said:

I see...

Archeology dept vallu religion and politics ani alochinchakunda real history bayatiki teste bavuntundi ...not for sake of hinduism or any religion but for world history

No non-muslim is allowed into the holy city of Mecca. And no non-royal family member is allowed into kaaba.. so, the actual truth will never come out