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#Keshavrai #Mathura

This is an original Akhbar of Aurangzeb's court dated 14th October 1666 preserved in the Royal Asiatic Society, London
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Persian Text:-

" ब अर्ज हजरत रसीद के दर मतहरा ( मथुरा ) जौ दर बुतखाने दर किशवराय जौ एक कठराह

संगे बेशुकोह नमूदे अस्त. हजरत शुनिदे फर्मुदन्द के दर मजहब मुसलमाने बुत खाने रा दीदन हम खूब निस्त व इन बेशुकोह दर इन कठरा रास्त कुनानयंद इन सुखन मुसलमानान रा खूब निस्त "

The Emperor learning that in the temple of Keshav Rai at Mathura there was a stone railing presented by Dara Shikoh, remarked,

“In the Muslim Faith it is a sin even to look at a temple , and this Dara had restored a railing in a temple ! This fact is not creditable to the Muhammadans. Remove the railing. By this order Abdun Nabi Khan, the faujdar of Mathura removed it.

Later in January 1670 Aurangzeb demolished the entire temple and had a mosque built in its place.