The Moonstone A Romance

At that date, the Mohammedan conqueror, Mahmoud of Ghizni, crossed India; seized on the holy city of Somnauth; and stripped of its treasures the famous temple, which had stood for centuries—the shrine of Hindoo pilgrimage, and the wonder of the Eastern world. Even then—in the palace of the Sultan himself—the three guardian priests still kept their watch in secret. The rest of them looked at his face—as if they expected it, after seventy years of worldly training, to speak the truth. There is here, moral, if not legal, evidence, that the murder was committed by the Indians.