Question

In what ways do you think the policies of Rajendra 1 and Ghazni were a product of their times?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Both Rajendra 1 and Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni of Afghanistan who targetted wealthy temples and helped him to accumulate wealth. b Temples were symbolic of power and wealth of the kings and were extremely rich. c.

Answer 2

Answer:

King Rajendra I looted the temples of the defeated rulers and seized prized statues from them. He these statues in the decoration of the Shiva temple, that he built in his capital in the early 11th century.

Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni was a contemporary of Rajendra I. He destroyed and looted the temples of defeated kings in order to win credit as a great hero of Islam. Thus, King Rajendra, I constructed a temple while Mahmud of Ghazni destroyed it. In this way, their actions were very much different.