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to Indian History
THE PLUNDER OF JAGANNATHA PURI
Firoz Shah followed Islamic views to the letter, and was
particularly cruel towards Hindus …led an expedition into Orissa where
he targeted and plundered the temple at Jagannatha Puri and destroyed
many other Vedic temples and shrines. ….After the attack on Jagannatha
Puri, Firuz Shah Tughlaq purposefully attacked an island off the coast
for no other reason than to kill the 100,000 men who had taken shelter
there to escape the tyrannical actions of Firuz.
The Sirat-i-Firuz Shahi records his expedition with the following
words: “Nearly 100,000 men of Jajnagar had taken refuge with their
women, children, kinsmen, and relations. The swordsmen of Islam turned
the island into a basin of blood by the massacre of the unbelievers.
Women with babies and pregnant ladies were haltered, manacled,
fettered, and enchained, and pressed as slaves into service in the
house of every soldier.”
Later, Firoz Shah Tughlaq went back up north and destroyed
the sacred shrine of Jvalamukhi at Kangra. there he took the main
deity and sent it to Medina , while he took other images and mixed
them with cows blood to be hung in nosebags from the necks of the
Brahmanas.