Special Story: In 1669, the order of Aurangzeb, in response to which the Subedar wrote – Temple has been demolished in Banaras, a mosque has been constructed

Varanasi: After the Shivling was discovered within the Gyanvapi Mosque Complex in Kashi, questions at the moment are being raised on the historic story of this complicated. Many Hindus declare that the place the place the Gyanvapi Masjid was constructed was really the temple of Lord Adi Vishweshwara. It is claimed on the premise of historical past that the demolition of the temple befell on the orders of Aurangzeb. From all of the books on historical past to the federal government gazetteer, it’s talked about that the temple was demolished on the orders of Aurangzeb. A letter written by Aurangzeb’s Subedar Abdul Hasan to Aurangzeb in September 1669 additionally testifies to this.

Advocate Nityanand Rai, who’s related to the Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi controversy, has been doing analysis on the historical past of Kashi for a very long time. Nityanand Rai says that the proof of Aurangzeb’s decree can also be present in a Gazetteer of Kashi printed in 1965, which is taken into account to be probably the most genuine historical past of the historical past of a metropolis. Apart from this, the point out of Aurangzeb’s decree can also be discovered within the historical past books.

Claims in a treatise on up to date historical past
In the ebook Maasir-e-Alamgiri, primarily based on the up to date historical past of Aurangzeb, Muhammad Safi Mustaid Khan has talked about the order of demolition of Vishwanath temple. Muhammad Safi Mustaid Khan was the scribe of Inayatullah Khan, the Wazir of the Mughal Empire and he had talked about the occasions of Aurangzeb’s complete time on this ebook. According to Maasir-e-Alamgiri, Aurangzeb issued a decree to his Subedar Abul Hasan on 8-9 April 1669 to go and destroy the temples of Kashi. After this decree, in September 1669, Abul Hasan wrote in his reply to Aurangzeb that the temple had been demolished and a mosque had been constructed there.

The date of April can also be talked about within the gazetteer
Aurangzeb’s decree can also be talked about within the Gazetteer of Kashi. The historical past of Varanasi has been written from web page quantity 25 to web page quantity 77 within the Gazetteer printed by the Government Press of Allahabad in 1965. It can also be written on the tenth web page of this Gazetteer that the executive identify of Kashi is Varanasi and this identify was saved on 24 May 1956. It is clearly written on the 57th web page of the Gazetteer that on 9 April 1669, Aurangzeb issued a decree to his regional governor that the temples and Sanskrit faculties of Kashi ought to be destroyed. On this decree, the Kashi Vishwanath temple was demolished.