On this very day 707 years ago in 1311 CE, one of the most glorious cities in Bharat, Dwarasamudra, the capital city of the Hoysala empire was besieged by eunuch islamic barbarian malik kafur under the orders of murderous islamic tyrant khilji. The city was reduced to dust. 
The Hoysala king at the time, Veera Ballala III was given 2 choices by islamic barbarian malik kafur in return to spare the lives of the people of the Hoysala kingdom. Choices being
1) convert to islam or die
2) pay an annual zimmah(tribute) to khilji.
1) convert to islam or die
2) pay an annual zimmah(tribute) to khilji.
After the fall of the Yadavas of Maharashtra & the Kakatiyas of Andhra to kafur's islamic sword, Ballala Deva had little choice but to accept one of the offers given to him. He refused to convert to islam. He chose to pay a zimmah. Gave away everything except his Yagnopaveetam.
But islamic butcher kafur wouldn't keep his word. His islamic hordes ransacked & plundered every single temple in the Hoysala kingdom, even reducing the capital city Dwarasamudra to rubble. Such was the ferocity of plunder that just like Hampi, Hindus abandoned the city & fled.
One of the many temples plundered & razed to ground by butcher kafur before making his way to plunder Madurai was our ancestral temple at Shantigrama, around 40 kms from the erstwhile capital Dwarasamudra. We restored it in 2015. Completely. Read on. twitter.com/i/moments/7837…
