when was the somnath temple raided by Mahmud of Ghori ?
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In 1024, during the reign of Bhima I, the prominent Turkic Muslim ruler Mahmud of Ghazni raided Gujarat, plundering the Somnath temple and breaking its jyotirlinga. He took away a booty of 20 million dinars.[2][3] Historians expect the damage to the temple by Mahmud to have been minimal because there are records of pilgrimages to the temple in 1038, which make no mention of any damage to the temple.[24] However, powerful legends with intricate detail developed in the Turko-Persian literature regarding Mahmud's raid,[25] which "electrified" the Muslim world according to scholar Meenakshi Jain.[26] They later boasted that Mahmud had killed 50,000 devotees who tried to defend the temple, a formulaic figure.[4][27]
At the time of Mahmud's attack, the temple appears to have been a wooden structure, which is said to have decayed in time (kalajirnam). Kumarapala (r. 1143–72) rebuilt it in "excellent stone and studded it with jewels," according to an inscription in 1169.[28][29]