al-Ahri of India
الأحري بالهند
India's great pilgrimage temple — a whole town endowed to it, ringed by a thousand cells of women consecrated to nothing but the idol's service 1.
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Al-Ahri: a revered idol-temple in the land of India, which people visit from distant lands, according to al-Mas'udi. 1
Al-Mas'udi's description
Around it is a town set aside for it, and around that are a thousand chambers in which there are slave-women whose only task is to honour this idol, as al-Mas'udi relates. 1
An additional source is needed: its location today.
Sources
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p. 557
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