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Iltutmish at Vidisha (Madhya Pradesh). Tabqat-i-Nasiri, translated into English by Major H.G. Reverty, New Delhi Reprint, 1970, Vol. I, pp. 621-22. also in Elliot and Dowson II, also in Jain, M. (2019). Flight of deities and rebirth of temples: Espisodes from Indian history. with different translation.
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After he returned to the capital in the year AH 632 (AD 1234) the Sultan led the hosts of Islam toward Malwah, and took the fortress and town of Bhilsan, and demolished the idol-temple which took three hundred years in building and which, in altitude, was about one hundred ells.

— Iltutmish on Vidisha

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "After he returned to the capital in the year AH 632 (AD 1234) the Sultan led the hosts of Islam toward Malwah, and took the fortress and town of Bhilsan, and demolished the idol-temple which took three hundred years in building and which, in altitude, was about one hundred ells." in the context of "Iltutmish at Vidisha (Madhya Pradesh). Tabqat-i-Nasiri, translated into English by Major H.G. Reverty, New Delhi Reprint, 1970, Vol. I, pp. 621-22. also in Elliot and Dowson II, also in Jain, M. (2019). Flight of deities and rebirth of temples: Espisodes from Indian history. with different translation." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Iltutmish

About Iltutmish

Shams ud-Din Iltutmish (r. 1211 – 1236) was the third of the Mamluk kings who ruled the former Ghurid territories in northern India. He was the first Muslim sovereign to rule from Delhi, and is thus considered the effective founder of the Delhi Sultanate.