raja todar mal rebuilt the kashi temple in 16th century.
raja todar mal rebuilt the kashi temple in 16th century.
who rebuilt the kashi temple in 16th century?
raja todar mal
the temple has been mentioned in the puranas including the kashi khanda (section) of skanda purana. the original vishwanath temple was destroyed by the army of qutb-ud-din aibak in 1194 ce, when he defeated the raja of kannauj as a commander of mohammad ghori. the temple was rebuilt by a gujarati merchant during the reign of delhi's sultan iltutmish (1211–1266 ce). it was demolished again during the rule of either hussain shah sharqi (1447–1458) or sikandar lodhi (1489–1517). raja man singh built the temple during mughal emperor akbar's rule, but some hindus boycotted it as he had let the mughals marry within his family. raja todar mal further re-built the temple with akbar's funding at its original site in 1585.
kashi vishwanath temple
theraveda buddhist religious texts were generally written in pali, or transcribed into lao using tham script. the tham script shows a strong similarity to the mon script used in inscriptions in the ancient mon kingdom of haripuñjaya (present-day lamphun province of northern thailand), dating from the 13th century. versions of the tham script continue to be used to this day by the lao, northern thai, tai lue and tai khuen. comprising present-day laos, the upper north and northeast of thailand, the northeast of myanmar, and the southwest of yunnan province in china. in laos, the tham script was generally reserved for religious writings, whereas texts which were considered secular were written in lao buhan, the precursor of the modern lao script.
literature of laos