In his second Rajtarangini, the historian Jonraj has recorded, "There was no city, no town, no village, no wood, where the temples of the gods were u… - Jonaraja

He (Suhabhatta) killed and tortured Brahmins not out of any malice or hatred towards them. It was just out of his devotion towards Turuskadarsana, the philosophy of Islam, that he killed them and that got him no feeling of committing the sin of murder."... "As a storm uproots trees and locusts devastate a crop of rice, the lived life, the way of life that identified Kashmir was destroyed by Yavanas — the Muslims."... Like a "child eating non-food items like clay and mud, Suhabhatta, with his aides indulged in jatividhvams, that is genocide of people."... "The Brahmins said that they shall die if their jati is destroyed, that means they are converted to Islam. They were told that if they want to keep their jati they should pay the fine, that is Jaziya.

The ancient temple of Varaha which seems to have been one of the most famous shrines of Kasmlr, is repeatedly mentioned by Kalhana. According to the tradition of the local Purohitas it stood near the site of the present Kotitirtha, at the western extremity of the town and close to the river-bank. Some ancient Lirigas and sculptures found at the Kotitirtha may have originally belonged to the temple. The destruction of its sacred image is noted by Jonaraja in the reign of Sikandar Butshikast.

With the Vedas, the six appendices, with the Pada and Krama (texts), with Vedånta and Siddhånta, logic and grammar, Purana recitation, with (Tantric) Mantras and the six traditional sects ... with its masses of Puranic, Vedic (śruti) and logic disciplines (tarkaśåstra), and, moreover, marked by Agnihotrins, with Brahmins devoted to meditation, asceticism, recitation and so on, and zealeaously engaged with ablutions, worship, and the like, ... the land of Kashmir is the best.