Why was the Somnath temple in Kathiawar plundered by Mahmud of Ghazani?
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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. ... They later boasted that Mahmud had killed 50,000 devotees who tried to defend the temple, a formulaic figure.
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