Since I haven't read the primary source for the Rashtrakuta bit, I won't comment on it, but @kshetragnya may want to take a look at it. However, let us correct the bit about Lalitaditya. Lalitaditya swore an oath on Parihasakeshava that the king of Gauda would be safe if he+
+came to negotiations. However, he broke his word and had the king of Gauda killed. This act is, BTW, criticised by Kalhana, who is also a Kashmiri. After this, the adherents of the king of Gauda considered the murti of Parihasakeshava violated, since Lalitaditya had sworn+
+a false oath on it. So, they sought to destroy what they considered a defiled murti. However, they destroyed another murti by mistake. This is not about the deity being the favourite of Lalitaditya, but being targeted because a false oath was sworn on it. But to come to+
+to the larger issue at hand. In all the annals of Hindu history, whenever a temple/murti was destroyed either deliberately or accidentally, the king/commander doing so was condemned almost universally. The destruction of the temples of others was considered a sin and a shame+
+for the king. In the annals of Hindu history, there are about a dozen or so instances of kings destroying temples, and they are reviled for it. OTOH, Islamist kings destroying temples are a dime a dozen, and the total number of temples destroyed by Islamists run into several+
+thousands, at the very least. And while the Hindus reviled the kings who did so [at the very least, criticising the kings who did so], the chronicles of the Islamists are in raptures about the destroyed Hindu temples. In particular, I will urge people to read what Mahmud's+
+chroniclers have said about the temples of Mathura, Mohammad Ghori's chroniclers have said about the temples of Kashi, and the destruction of the temple of Somnath by various Islamist kings. The whole point is-destruction of temples was considered a sin by Hindus, while it was+
+considered a virtue by the Islamist kings and their chroniclers to destroy the temples of the kafirs. This is the vital point that those who seek to do an equal-equal between the few temples destroyed by Hindus and the thousands of temples destroyed by the Islamists ignore.
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