Malikgaffor comes topper in terms of Indian conqurers?I am sorry.It wasnt him.I can remember so many others who conquered more territories than him.
Rajendra cholan:In north upto ganges,in west upto river sind,in south srilanka,in east java sumatra...This must be the largest ever indian empire.
kashmir in north to kanyakumari in south.
in north to senji in south.
malik gaffur wasnt a king.He was a general.He did not have any tough opposition(not his fault though)His fate was cruel.He killed alladin gilji and blinded his son,but was killed cruelly later.
malik kafur was a soldier( the naib sultan they called him- one who could stand in for a sultan if the latter was inapacitated)
malik was the last greatest conqueror befor the start of gunwielding warfare.literally hand to hand fighting before that it was sheer guts only and a sharpened blade only. he came up to madurai and many say rameshwaram hoysalas, yadavas, rudras of warrangal and the tamil kings succumbed to him in less than 3 years or so in fact it was malik who made allaudin a great king. earlier he depended on 4 khans i am told.zafar he lost to the mongols. the rest to wine and women.
when we count aurangazebs territory we should subtract shajahans from it. similarly victoria's territory should have the east india company's territory subtracted from it. rajendrans empire must subtact rrc's territory.
perhaps i am wrong when i said malik conqured more territory.
i should have been right if i had also said conquered it personally and in a short span( aurangazeb ruled for something like 40 years didnt he)
The unspeakable sacrilage of the plunder of Madurai by Malik Kafur created such a terror in the minds of people in Madurai that reminds even today. In the Meenatchi Amman temple, there is still a lingam whose top was broken by the crow bars of Malik's army.
As per temple records, the priests sealed the main shrines and kept dummy statues before the sanctum so the original deities are not humiliated. The are many legends of miracles that happened when the Malik's army camped in the temple. A stone elephant that holds Lord Somasundarars shrine ate a sugar cane. When the army left and when the priests opened the shrines, the lamps were still glowing inside...
One mans ruthlessness can not be used to brand a whole community. There are many such individuals in human history that never carried any value for life or civilization before and after our Malik. Take for example, the Jalianwalla Bagh massacre by the british in our own times. We have not banned british or their language in our lives. Aren't we?
We humans should learn from history how to live and how not to live. Forgiveness is the greatest of all.
malik looted madurai temple but did not raze it like the other temples on the way one main reason was that he saw the kalyanai eating karumbu
and who was the person who prompted this scenario
a sidhar whose shrine is still there opposite the lingam that is broken
perhaps the sidhar was lord shiva himself
and why should lord shiva give a darshan to a non beleiver and a temple breaker?
but actually the lamp burning and inscence smoke happened tenyears later. and perhaps even the idol breaking. malik came and left in 1314 another invasion of the thukluks came in 1320 or so and left behind a madurai sultanate. the temple lamp burning was witnessed by kempenna 50 years later