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“Sultãn Ahmad… encamped near Chãmpãner on 7 Rabî-us-Sãni, AH 822 (AD 3 May, 1419). He destroyed temples wherever he found them and returned to Ahmadãbãd.”

— Ahmad Shah I

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Tabqãt-i-Akharî by Nizamuddin Ahmad.

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