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Dwarkadhish Temple, Dwarka

The temple’s history is associated with Mahmud Begada’s 1473 campaign against Dwarka and Bet.

Dwarka · Gujarat

LAST DOCUMENTED CONDITION

Rebuilt

As documented: 2026-09-28

LOCATION PRECISION

Approximate locality

22.2379°, 68.9676° · not a surveyed footprint

How to read this history

Town-wide accounts and the history of the individual shrine must be distinguished. Bet’s principal temple is a separate identity problem, not a second automatically identified modern shrine.
Access date is not a field inspection. This selected chronology is not a complete list of all episodes.
Underlying bibliography is available with access status; independent specialist review remains outstanding.

AI-assisted source review: 2026-09-28. Independent specialist review: not completed.

The recorded chronology

Selected episodes. Rebuilding and later changes are distinguished from damage.

Destruction · intentional causeOpen this episode on the map ↗
1473 AD · campaign year, exact demolition day unknown
Commissariat describes the destruction of Dwarka’s temples during Mahmud Begada’s campaign; Firishta’s Jugut account names a temple destroyed by the army. The shrine article associates this episode with Dwarkadhish.
eventAttributed · further checking needed
Commissariat describes the destruction of Dwarka’s temples during Mahmud Begada’s campaign; Firishta’s Jugut account names a temple destroyed by the army. The shrine article associates this episode with Dwarkadhish.
14 May dates departure of the expedition; 6 October dates return to Mustafabad. Neither is used as a precise demolition date. These histories share chronicle sources and are not independent eyewitnesses.
- M. S. Commissariat, A History of Gujarat, volume I ↗M. S. Commissariat · Commissariat I, pp. 173–175; Firishta IV, printed p. 36 in the consulted edition; shrine article, History · Accessed 2026-09-28
- Firishta, History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power, Briggs translation, volume IV ↗Firishta / John Briggs · Commissariat I, pp. 173–175; Firishta IV, printed p. 36 in the consulted edition; shrine article, History · Accessed 2026-09-28
- Dwarkadhish Temple, Dwarka — Wikipedia article and bibliography ↗Wikipedia contributors · Commissariat I, pp. 173–175; Firishta IV, printed p. 36 in the consulted edition; shrine article, History · Accessed 2026-09-28
dateAttributed · further checking needed
1473 · campaign year, exact demolition day unknown
- M. S. Commissariat, A History of Gujarat, volume I ↗M. S. Commissariat · Commissariat I, pp. 173–175; Firishta IV, printed p. 36 in the consulted edition; shrine article, History · Accessed 2026-09-28
- Firishta, History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power, Briggs translation, volume IV ↗Firishta / John Briggs · Commissariat I, pp. 173–175; Firishta IV, printed p. 36 in the consulted edition; shrine article, History · Accessed 2026-09-28
- Dwarkadhish Temple, Dwarka — Wikipedia article and bibliography ↗Wikipedia contributors · Commissariat I, pp. 173–175; Firishta IV, printed p. 36 in the consulted edition; shrine article, History · Accessed 2026-09-28
actorAttributed · further checking needed
Mahmud Begada’s forces
- M. S. Commissariat, A History of Gujarat, volume I ↗M. S. Commissariat · Commissariat I, pp. 173–175; Firishta IV, printed p. 36 in the consulted edition; shrine article, History · Accessed 2026-09-28
- Firishta, History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power, Briggs translation, volume IV ↗Firishta / John Briggs · Commissariat I, pp. 173–175; Firishta IV, printed p. 36 in the consulted edition; shrine article, History · Accessed 2026-09-28
- Dwarkadhish Temple, Dwarka — Wikipedia article and bibliography ↗Wikipedia contributors · Commissariat I, pp. 173–175; Firishta IV, printed p. 36 in the consulted edition; shrine article, History · Accessed 2026-09-28

Location & last documented condition

locationSupported in consulted sources

Approximate locality; not a surveyed historic footprint.

Dwarkadhish Temple, Dwarka — Wikipedia article and bibliography ↗Wikipedia contributors · History / damage account; see source context · Accessed 2026-09-28

present conditionAttributed · further checking needed

The consulted account describes a later rebuilt shrine.

Dwarkadhish Temple, Dwarka — Wikipedia article and bibliography ↗Wikipedia contributors · History / damage account; see source context · Accessed 2026-09-28

Source context

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References are discovery leads unless marked as consulted.

Firishta, History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power, Briggs translation, volume IV ↗ · Firishta / John Briggs
Jugut/Bet episode, printed p. 36 of this edition. Pagination differs from the edition cited by Commissariat.
Discovery: Wikipedia reference trail or independent source search · Access: direct
M. S. Commissariat, A History of Gujarat, volume I ↗ · M. S. Commissariat
Printed pp. 173–175 read, with notes leading to Firishta IV, Bayley and the Arabic History. These are related accounts, not three independent eyewitnesses.
Discovery: Wikipedia reference trail or independent source search · Access: direct
Dwarkadhish Temple, Dwarka — Wikipedia article and bibliography ↗ · Wikipedia contributors
Article consulted for identity, location and stated condition; retrieval method: Firecrawl rendering of public Wikipedia. Captured bibliography entries are not all read.
Discovery: Wikipedia reference trail or independent source search · Access: direct

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