After a severe tussle over Gyanvapi regarding appearance of “Shivaling” in the mosque. Court also poised to resolve dispute over Mathura’s Idgah mosque. ASI department along with other local sources, hinted towards demolition of Hindu/Jain monuments and temples to create Qutub Minar, Jama Masjid and Deval Mosque.
Former Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) Regional Director Dharamveer Sharma said that Qutub Minar was actually Surya Stambh and was made by Vikramaditya under Varah Mihir’s guidance. Dharamveer Sharma is considered among most respected archaeologists in India. Under Delhi division of ASI, Sharma has served as a Superintending Archaeologist for around three times.
Sharma while commenting over tower said that the tower has an observatory to calculate constellations and their are 27 binocular locations to count 27 constellations. Sharma also mentioned that he found mentions of Surya Stambh and Devanagari writing upon the third floor of Minaret. He further claimed that the statue of Bhagwan Narasimha and his devotee Prahlad also discovered from the place.
The Deval Masjid building was originally a Hindu-Jain temple built around the 10th century CE by the Rashtrakuta King Indravallabha (Indra III). The temple was rebuilt during the reign of Governor Kalalyani Chalukya Someswara, who renamed it ‘Indranarayan Swamy Temple’. The conversion of the Indranarayan Swamy Temple into a Mosque began in 1323 when Muhammad Bin Tughlaq invaded the fortress of Bodhan which was under the protection of the heroic commander Katatiya Sitaramachandra Sastri.
Shastri defended the building with 100 pillars for many years but was forced to surrender to the Tughlaq army. Shastri was forcibly converted to Islam, converted to Tughlaq suzerainty, and renamed Alam Khan. But he returned to Hinduism soon after Tughlaq’s army left. The next time Tughlaq’s army attacked Bodhan, it did not capture the prisoners, instead marching around Podana (Bodhan) fortress and destroying it. They deposed the Akatiya ruler Sitaramachandra Shastri and transformed the Indranarayan Swamy temple into a Deval Masjid.
Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi stating that images of Hindu gods and goddesses are buried under the Jama Masjid of Delhi. The property demanded that the area be excavated. The Mahasabha claimed that Aurangzeb ordered the burial of Hindu gods and goddesses under the stairs of the Jama Masjid of Delhi when Khan Jahan Bahadur, the supreme general in the Aurangzeb army, returned from Jodhpur and other provinces after destroying Hindu religious sites.
“Therefore, it is necessary to issue a directive to the relevant department to dig a place for the removal of the idols,” Hindu Mahasabha chief Chakrapani Maharaj wrote in a letter to PM Modi and HM Shah.