औरंगझेब किती मोठा धर्मांध होता

औरंगझेब किती मोठा धर्मांध होता हे कुणा कडुन लपलेले नाही .भारतात सर्वात जास्त कुणी हिंदुंची मंदिरे तोडली अस्तील तर तो औरंगझेब .औरंगझेब काही ही पाउल उचलायच्या आधी इस्लामच्या मोठ्या जानकाराला जरुर विचारायाचा .सम्भाजी महाराज असो कि गुरुतेग बहादुर आपल्या दुश्मनान्ना सजा द्यायची पधत एकच इस्लामी .सम्भाजी महाराजान्ना मारण्या आधी पण त्याने मौलवी कडुन सल्ला घेतला होता .

Based on Firmans, original edicts in Persian issued by Aurangzeb, preserved at the Bikaner Museum, Rajasthan, India...

On the 15th February 1689, Shambhaji and Kavi Kalash were brought to the Imperial camp dressed as buffons with long fool’s caps and bells placed on their heads, mounted on camels, with drums beating, with thousands of onlookers lining the roads. Aurangzeb was sitting in full darbar, and, at the sight of the prisoners, “descended from the throne and kneeling down on the carpet bowed his head to the ground in double thankfulness to the Giver of this crowning victory”. Shambhaji spurned at the offer of life and loosened his tongue in abuse of the Emperor. That very night his eyes were blinded and next day the tongue of Kavi Kalash was cut out. The Musalman clerics decreed that Shambhaji should be put to death.

After undergoing a fortnight of torture and insult, the captives were put to a cruel and painful death on the 11th March, their limbs being hacked off one by one and their flesh thrown to the dogs. Their severed heads were stuffed with straw and exhibited in all the chief cities of the Deccan to the accompaniment of drum and trumpet (Maasir-i-‘Alamgiri, 320-25; Muntakhab-ul-Lubab, 386-88, Sarkar, Aurangzeb, IV, pp.340-44).

— with NileSh Garade.