Somnath Temple: The place of splendor
Somnath Temple and also known as Prabhasa-Pattana is located in Veraval city of Suvrashtra, Gujrat near the seashore. Dedicated to Lord Shiva It is one of the most sacred pilgrimage sites for Hindus and it is the first among the twelve Jyotirlinga. The date of construction of the first version of the Somnath temple is unknown, with estimates ranging from the early centuries of the first millennium to around the ninth century CE. Muhamad Ghaznavi attacked India 17 times just to plunder the wealth of India. He made his 16th attack on the Somnath temple in 1025 just to plunder the gold. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, colonial-era historians and archaeologists actively studied the Somnath temple ruins, which depicted a historic Hindu temple in the process of being converted into an Islamic mosque. Somnath temple was reconstructed in the Māru-Gurjara style of Hindu temple architecture . T...