What follows is the story launched by the late B.N. Pande, working chairman of the Gandhi Darshan Samiti and former Governor of Orissa: %u201CThe story regarding demolition of Vishvanath temple is that while Aurangzeb was passing near Varanasi on his way to Bengal, the Hindu Rajas in his retinue requested that if the halt was made for a day, their Ranis may go to Varanasi, have a dip in the Ganges and pay their homage to Lord Vishwanath. Aurangzeb readily agreed. Army pickets were posted on the five mile route to Varanasi. The Ranis made a journey on the Palkis. They took their dip in the Ganges and went to the Vishwanath temple to pay their homage. After offering Puja all the Ranis returned except one, the Maharani of Kutch. A thorough search was made of the temple precincts but the Rani was to be found nowhere. When Aurangzeb came to know of it, he was very much enraged. He sent his senior officers to search for the Rani. Ultimately, they found that the statue of Ganesh which was fixed in the wall was a moveable one. When the statue was moved, they saw a flight of stairs that led to the basement. To their horror, they found the missing Rani dishonored and crying, deprived of all her ornaments. The basement was just beneath Lord Vishwanath%u2019s seat. The Rajas expressed their vociferous protests. As the crime was heinous, the Rajas demanded exemplary action. Aurangzeb ordered that as the sacred precincts have been despoiled, Lord Vishvanath may be moved to some other place, the temple be razed to the ground and the Mahant be arrested and punished.%u201D10
Pattabhi Sitaramayya wrote in his prison diary: %u201CThere is a popular belief that Aurangazeb was a bigot in religion. This, however, is combated by a certain school. His bigotry is illustrated by one or two instances. The building of a mosque over the site of the original Kasi Visveswara Temple is one such. A like mosque in Mathura is another. The revival of jazia is a third but of a different order. A story is told in extenuation of the first event. In the height of his glory, Aurangazeb like any foreign king in a country, had in his entourage a number of Hindu nobles. They all set out one day to see the sacred temple of Benares. Amongst them was a Ranee of Cutch. When the party returned after visiting the Temple, the Ranee of Cutch was missing. They searched for her in and out, East, North, West and South but no trace of her was noticeable. At last, a more diligent search revealed a Tah Khana or an underground story of the temple which to all appearances had only two storys. When the passage to it was found barred, they broke open the doors and found inside the pale shadow of the Ranee bereft of her jewellery. It turned out that the Mahants were in the habit of picking out wealthy and be-jewelled pilgrims and in guiding them to see the temple, decoying them to the underground cellar and robbing them of their jewellery. What exactly would have happened to their life one did not know. Anyhow in this case, there was no time for mischief as the search was diligent and prompt. On discovering the wickedness of the priests, Aurangazeb declared that such a scene of robbery could not be the House of God and ordered it to be forthwith demolished. And the ruins were left there. But the Ranee who was thus saved insisted on a Musjid being built on the ruin and to please her, one was subsequently built.
The temple was rebuilt nearby and Mosque also build to show HINDU MUSLIM UNITY
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by Secular Indian on Mar 07, 2007 05:30 AM Permalink
http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/ayodhya/kashivishvanath.html
The story is very bizarre, to say the least. First of all, it has Aurangzeb go to Bengal. Yet, in the extant histories of his life and works, no such journey to Bengal, or even any journey as far east as Varanasi, is recorded. Some of his generals were sent on expeditions to Bengal, but not Aurangzeb himself. There are fairly complete chronicles of his doings, day by day; could B.N. Pande or any of his quoters give the date or even the year of this remarkable episode?
Neither was Aurangzeb known to surround himself with Hindu courtiers. And did these Rajas take their wives along on military expeditions? Or was it some holiday picnic? How could the Mahant kidnap a Rani who was there in the company of other Ranis, as well as the appropriate courtiers and bodyguards? Why did he take such risk? Why did the %u201CRajas%u201D wait for Aurangzeb to take %u201Cexemplary action%u201D: did they fear his anger if they punished the priests or destroyed the temple themselves? And since when is demolition the approved method of purifying a defiled temple, an eventuality for which the Shâstras have laid down due ritual procedures?
One question which we can readily answer is, where did B.N. Pande get this story from? He himself writes: %u201CDr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya, in his famous book, The Feathers and the Stones, has narrated this fact based on documentary evidence. So, we have to go one more step back in time to find this intriguing %u201Cdocumentary evidence%u201D. Let us turn to this book, now hard to find, to see what the documentary evidence is on which this whole wave of pro-Aurangzeb rumours is based, but which no one has cared to reproduce or even just specify. This is what Gandhian Congress leader Pattabhi Sitaramayya wrote in his prison diary:
%u201CThere is a popular belief that Aurangazeb was a bigot in religion. This, however, is combated by a certain school. His bigotry is illustrated by one or two instances. The building of a mosque over the site of the original Kasi Visveswara Temple is one such. A like mosque in Mathura is another. The revival of Jazia is a third but of a different order. A story is told in extenuation of the first event.
%u201CIn the height of his glory, Aurangazeb like any foreign king in a country, had in his entourage a number of Hindu nobles. They all set out one day to see the sacred temple of Benares. Amongst them was a Ranee of Cutch. When the party returned after visiting the Temple, the Ranee of Cutch was missing. They searched for her in and out, East, North, West and South but no trace of her was noticeable. At last, a more diligent search revealed a Tah Khana or an underground storey of the temple which to all appearances had only two storeys. When the passage to it was found barred, they broke open the doors and found inside the pale shadow of the Ranee bereft of her jewellery.
%u201CIt turned out that the Mahants were in the habit of picking out wealthy and bejewelled pilgrims and in guiding them to see the temple, decoying them to the underground cellar and robbing them of their jewellery. What exactly would have happened to their life one did not know. Anyhow in this case, there was no time for mischief as the search was diligent and prompt. On discovering the wickedness of the priests, Aurangazeb declared that such a scene of robbery could not be the House of God and ordered it to be forthwith demolished. And the ruins were left there.
%u201CBut the Ranee who was thus saved insisted on a Musjid being built on the ruined and to please her, one was subsequently built. That is how a Musjid has come to exist by the side of the Kasi Visweswar temple which is no temple in the real sense of the term but a humble cottage in which the marble Siva Linga is housed. Nothing is known about the Mathura Temple.
%u201CThis story of the Benares Musjid was given in a rare manuscript in Lucknow which was in the possession of a respected Mulla who had read it in the Ms. and who though he promised to look it up and give the Ms. to a friend, to whom he had narrated the story, died without fulfilling his promise. The story is little known and the prejudice, we are told, against Aurangazeb persists.%u201D
So now, we finally know where the story comes from: an unnamed mullah friend of an unnamed acquaintance of Sitaram ayya%u2019s knew of a manuscript, the details of which he took with him in his grave. This is the %u201Cdocument%u201D on which secularist journalists and historians base their %u201Cevidence%u201D of Aurangzeb%u2019s fair and secularist disposition, overruling the evidence of archaeology and the cold print of the Maasiri Alamgiri, to %u201Cexplode the myth%u201D of Islamic iconoclasm spread by the %u201Cchauvinist%u201D Hindutva propagandists. Now you just try to imagine what the secularists and their mouthpieces in Western academe would say if Hindus offered evidence of this quality.
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by santan g on Mar 07, 2007 07:18 PM Permalink
I am glad more and more people are learning the bitter truth about India.India was raped by hordes of invaders and they looted and converted the people.Who are to be blamed??? Present day muslims? Present day upper caste people? Present day politicians? Secularists? Appeasers? At every stage in the history of a nation there will always be people who care about themselves and not about other citizens of the nation.When this population has a majority be prepared for another invasion and mass murder and rapes. Why did it happen to India repeatedly? Why people in India themselves are against India? Why is it communal to say be patriotic to India? In No other nation in the whole world the citizens speak to each other in a foreign language! Two Indians speak to each other in ENGLISH and there is no national language.No national language no national identity and no identity no pride and no pride in nation, the problem starts.Have you heard two japs/chinese/germans/french/arabs/even bingly banglies/sinhalese/speak in an alien language? We do.We are proud we speak foreign language better.We are proud that we are finally settled in UK/US albeit as a second class citizen.we are proud to denounce the India.Thats the problem.
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by chaitanya kumar on Mar 06, 2007 11:09 PM Permalink
you are spreading hatred through such false stories. Maybe it's because of your Islamist nature and if you said this story on the street to the right guy, you would lynched and your wife raped(no kidding), Instead you try it in this forum where identity is not known. But the result would be that you still spread the hatred in a higher level where more people than actual life read it here(maybe 100 or more Hindus who think Aurangzeb is a monster). And with many more like you expressing such opinions, multiple more Hindus will be reading it. Whatever your cause is, you are not being smart in getting the message across the right way. You are endagering the lives of your own community. Good job buddy. There are many Hindus who appreciate your efforts. It would be difficult and inconvenient for them to abuse their own gods and people. You are doing that job for them. Islam is a kind religion.
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by rafiuddin farooqui on Mar 07, 2007 12:27 AM Permalink
My dear brother Chaitanya Kumar
This is the piece of history. When you talk with full records. You are talking about Aurangzeb. Let we do go through some facts and figures this the methodology of studying any subject. I am not adovcating Aurangzeb, but I am against people who spreading hate or they are becoming the tools. I always looks for the future. Please also see the figures of the budget for the clarification. Do not take my word go to the Union Government Budget and study this the work of great journalist.
Do not worry, my friends, all this talk about a package and helping to Indian Muslims was nothing just only a lip Service. It is Just appeasement. Manmohan singh government repeated the same thing and offered nothing . The other deprived sections like DALITS AND BACKWARDS GET CONCRETE BENEFITS WHERE AS INDIAN MINORITIES GET INQUIRY COMMISSIONS THE HISTORIC THING IS THAT WE GOT SACHAR COMMITTEE REPORT. Please examine the current budget Para 36 for minorities and Para 33 SC/STs and compare.
THE ANNUAL EXPENDITURE OF THE UNION GOVERNMENT IS RS680,521 CRORE
There are around 150 million Muslims in India, and about 50 million Sikhs and Christians. The total allocation for them is less than Rs320 crore just mere 320 crores.
The allocation for schemes benefiting Scheduled Castes and Tribes is Rs. 3,271 Crore and from other schemes they get Rs. 17,691 and there are scholarship worth Rs. 790.00 the total become Rs 21,752 Crores. Apart from this they have many other social benefits which minorities doesn%u2019t have.
Rest the amount of budget is spending for the benefit of Hindus. Most of the chunk of remains budget eaten by the salaries. The percentage of minorities in Government employment is negligible. The total amount you are eating. Dr. Ramananad Rao appeal in the court and let have the debate on it. Those people who are sane and have good conscience and not lost intelligence can understand what is this?
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by sunil sirohi on Mar 07, 2007 08:39 AM Permalink
you are an utter idiot , don't you know that dalits also includes muslims???? this is not pak. rafiuddin. so no need for additional burden to educate the terrorists.
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by rafiuddin farooqui on Mar 07, 2007 12:49 AM Permalink
Pyare Chaitanya Kumar I love you, you sounds very well. Clean your mindset. Leave this Mullah and Moulvi talk with sense. Why are you exposing yourself as fools. When people talk. people understand who is he? Asked the Government to keep Hajj Subsidy in their coffers. The Air India is surviving from our money otherwise it will be closed. It is open demand to withdraw subsidy and allows us to use any carrier. You are child do not know the mathematic. Do home work thanks
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by chaitanya kumar on Mar 07, 2007 12:54 AM Permalink
You are showing mullah attitude. Air India will do good if these Muslims don't travel by air. I mean it's not very safe to the planes and buildings. With government funding, you will take more funding from Saudi petro dollars to increase the Wahhabaization and Talibanization og Indian Muslims which has already engulfed the surrounding regions like Bangladesh and Pakistan where these radical breeds are killing Sufis and Ahmediyas etc. Indian Muslims are their current target group.
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by Chandra Gowda on Mar 07, 2007 02:50 PM Permalink
In muslim counrtries also u people want to enjoy and Christian countries also u want to enjoj and posing as monority want to enjoy all benefits, if u are going to haj u go with ur money and effort when a child is born u sau allah has given, you people dont have control in --- and produce kids in the name of allah whether they study,do mechanic jobs u r not worried u want to cross the population so that one fine day prove majority and can rule india., you people have lavish lives because of roshan baigm jaffer sharried etc., chors. you poeple want to march to delhi for Haq mongo ask for rights ,
whoever it is according to merit they should be given job or anything.
U r against christians, but like to work in call centers mnc and want us money.
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by Dr_Ramanand Rao on Mar 09, 2007 09:06 AM Permalink
it is unislamic to take funds from a Govt. to go on Hujj, but it is a known fact that thousands of Indian Muslims avail of the Hujj subsidy
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by chaitanya kumar on Mar 07, 2007 12:39 AM Permalink
Sikhs and Christians are doing a lot better by themselves without "funding". They are progressive and forward looking communities.
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by Chandra Gowda on Mar 07, 2007 02:53 PM Permalink
great saying, and going they want on all the sides, common Hindus united throw this congress stupids out and encourge other parties to rule otherewise many Dawoods and salman khans will come
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by neha kothari on Mar 07, 2007 01:01 PM Permalink
How about if someone talks about Shri Ram and Shri Krishn the same way you talk.. Dont insult sentiments.. You stupid..
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by sharif adhikari on Mar 07, 2007 10:11 AM Permalink
Francois, you people only knows to enjoy and nothing else, if you dont have knowledge about mohd sas(mbph) keep your mouth shut
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by ayatul islam on Mar 07, 2007 03:02 PM Permalink
brother,
All knows what happened in the shankaracharya math. And kanch was jailed for killing his secretary and the blood was found in the temple.
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by Dr_Ramanand Rao on Mar 09, 2007 09:03 AM Permalink
and have you counted the no. of people your mullahs are killing (and I'm not even counting the human bombs they create)
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by Mike Gandhi on Mar 06, 2007 11:25 PM Permalink
you are probably belonging to RSS gang. For that you are clsoing your eyes, ear and ofcourse you mind too. Accept the trouth and reality. Dont read fanatic litrature of RSS gang.
RE:RE:RE:Francois Gautier do some research work. The Supporting Document was published in Illustrated Weekly.
by chaitanya kumar on Mar 06, 2007 11:28 PM Permalink
rafiuddin farooqui, you are the first guy in this thread who is spreading hatred through relentless efforts. Keep it up. I should admit that Other Muslims tried the same thing but i found them just blabbering nonsense. They were not hitting the nail like you are trying. Don't know if they lacked the will or were just moderate guys who live a little away from mullah crap. You are the guy man. Guys like you are the reason why organisations like Bajrang dal in India are growing from strength to strength. These organisations need more people like you to maintain their growth for now. You are just a tool for them.
RE:RE:RE:RE:Francois Gautier do some research work. The Supporting Document was published in Illustrated Weekly.
by chaitanya kumar on Mar 06, 2007 11:33 PM Permalink
Mike Gandhi, stop kidding about me closing my eyes, ears and nose. All your postings were laughing riot and stupid coming from a mentally unstable guy. Learn from Farooqui. Open your eyes and learn how the guys posts.
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by Chandra Gowda on Mar 07, 2007 02:42 PM Permalink
Beigni an Indian nothing wrong if anybody belongs to RSS,VHP or BJP otherwise by now india would have sold to someone or for sure ruled by muslims already overpopulation is going with full effor oh! Bharat Mathe when will India follow china policy one child policy as long as congress is there it is not going to happen.
RE:Francois Gautier do some research work. The Supporting Document was published in Illustrated Weekly.
by Secular Indian on Mar 07, 2007 05:33 AM Permalink
For those that don't have long attention spans:
So now, we finally know where the story comes from: an unnamed mullah friend of an unnamed acquaintance of Sitaram ayyas knew of a manuscript, the details of which he took with him in his grave. This is the "document" on which secularist journalists and historians base their "evidence" of Aurangzeb's fair and secularist disposition, overruling the evidence of archaeology and the cold print of the Maasiri Alamgiri, to "explode the myth" of Islamic iconoclasm spread by the "chauvinist" Hindutva propagandists. Now you just try to imagine what the secularists and their mouthpieces in Western academe would say if Hindus offered evidence of this quality.
RE:Francois Gautier do some research work. The Supporting Document was published in Illustrated Weekly.
by sunil sirohi on Mar 07, 2007 08:36 AM Permalink
who concoted this mythological story? rafiuddin?
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by Perv Sharma on Mar 07, 2007 08:47 AM Permalink
Raifuddin 's Mullah offcourse and this chap doesn't believe in anything else not even allah but in a mullah.
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by rafiuddin farooqui on Mar 07, 2007 12:38 PM Permalink
You people are just blank. I told that the complete issue was debated and published with documents in Illustrate Weekly. Called Mr. Dhinkar he is still alive. Illustrate Weekly editor. He will provide you the photo copy of the paper. Give me your address when I will be in India, I will send you full photo copy of the weekly which published the documents FARMANS and Historical Records. The Temple Aurangzeb destroyed not to suppress Hinduism. The temple sanctity was spoiled and dis-honored and become brothel. Adi Wasi women dis-honored everyday it was become point (ADDA) for enjoyment. Please do not go further in details. The horror stories are there. Whatever the present scenario creating it is just fabricating the history. Be Careful, As you sow, so you will reap.
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by Dr_Ramanand Rao on Mar 09, 2007 09:13 AM Permalink
do you mean to say the farmaans Gautier writes about that record the destruction of so many temples and killing/converting Hindus is false? Ridiculous!
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by Secular Indian on Mar 07, 2007 01:11 PM Permalink
So now, we finally know where the story comes from: an unnamed mullah friend of an unnamed acquaintance of Sitaram ayyas knew of a manuscript, the details of which he took with him in his grave. This is the "document" on which secularist journalists and historians base their "evidence" of Aurangzeb's fair and secularist disposition, overruling the evidence of archaeology and the cold print of the Maasiri Alamgiri, to "explode the myth" of Islamic iconoclasm spread by the "chauvinist" Hindutva propagandists. Now you just try to imagine what the secularists and their mouthpieces in Western academe would say if Hindus offered evidence of this quality.
