Question

Mahmud Ghazni invaded the famous_______ temple.
A.Rameshwaram
B.Somnath
C.Jaganath
D.Omkareshwar

Answer 1

Hint: Mahmud of Ghazni was the main autonomous leader of the Turkic, administration of Ghaznavids, administering from 999 to 1030. Mahmud succeeded his dad, a warlord who had cut out a domain in focal Asia and had set up his capital at Ghazni, south of Kabul, in 998 AD at 27 years old.

Complete answer:
He dispatched forceful expansionist missions, and is said to have attacked India no under multiple times somewhere in the range of 1000 and 1025 AD. His missions constantly occurred during the sweltering summer season, and on each event Mahmud left India before the beginning of the rainstorm, which would have overwhelmed the streams of the Punjab and potentially caught his soldiers.
He is said to have diverted a colossal measure of goods on each visit, and among other Indian traditions, the Chandellas of Khajuraho, the Pratiharas of Kanauj, and the Rajputs of Gwalior all surrendered to his impressive military machine.
It is the memory of his pulverization of the Shiva sanctuary at Somnath, on the southern shore of Kathiawar in Gujarat, which has procured him the undying contempt of numerous Hindus. Muslim annals propose that 50,000 Hindu kicked the bucket in the fight for Somnath, and it is said that the Shiva lingam was wrecked by Mahmud himself; after the fight, Mahmud and his soldiers are depicted as having diverted across the desert what might be compared to 6.5 huge loads of gold.

Hence, the correct answer is option (B).

Note:At the hour of his demise, his realm had been changed into a broad military domain, which reached out from northwestern Iran legitimate to the Punjab in the Indian subcontinent, Khwarazm in Transoxiana, and Makran.