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It would seem as if the only thing Shahjahan cared for was the search for women to serve his pleasure ... for this end he established a fair at his court. No one was allowed to enter except women of all ranks that is to say, great and small, rich and poor, but all handsome.

— Niccolao Manucci I, p.195. Quoted in Lal, K. S (1988)

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All Muhammadans are fond of women, who are their principal relaxation and almost their only pleasure.

II, 240; quoted from Lal, K. S (1994)

The most sumptuous of European courts cannot compare in richness and magnificence with the lustre beheld in Indian courts.

II, p.330. quoted from Lal, K. S (1992)

All of them (temples at Hardwar and Ayodhya) are thronged with worshippers, even those that are destroyed are still venerated by the Hindus and visited by the offering of alms.

vol,. III. Quoted from Lal, K. S (1999)

“The chief temples destroyed by King Aurangzeb within his kingdom were the following: Maisa (? Mayapur), Matura (Mathura), Caxis (Kashi), Hajudia (Ajudhya), and an infinite number of others ; but, not to tire the reader, I do not append their names.”

He (Aurangzeb) also ordered every viceroy and governor to destroy all the temples within his jurisdiction. Among others was destroyed the great temple of Mathura which was of such a height that its gilded pinnacle could be seen from Agra, eighteen leagues away‛.

Storia, II, pp.77, 143. in Bhatnagar, V. S (2020)

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