And, my question - moved here form [Indo-Eurasia]:

> Any evidence of tribal sanctuaries being treated as political centers and
 destroyed? By Hindu or Muslim rulers? Any trace of it in the epos, in the puranas, epigraphy, in the Islamic rulers' ?

Artur Karp Indology ret.
University of Warsaw
Poland

2016-05-08 8:57 GMT+02:00 Birgit Kellner <birgit.kellner@oeaw.ac.at>:
Giovanni Verardi's "Hardships and Downfall of Buddhism in India" springs
to mind:

@Book{Verardi2011,
  Title                    = {Hardships and Downfall of Buddhism in India},
  Author                   = {Giovanni Verardi},
  Editor                   = {Federica Barba},
  ISBN                     = {9788173049286},
  Location                 = {New Delhi},
  Pagetotal                = {523},
  Publisher                = {Manohar Publ.},
  Year                     = {2011},
}

With best regards,

Birgit Kellner

Am 08.05.2016 um 08:47 schrieb D N Jha:
> Dear List,
> Can any one refer me to a comprehensive discussion of the archaeological
> evidence of the destruction/appropriation of Buddhist monasteries and
> other religious establishments in pre-Islamic period?...Any thing beyond
> the writings of Richard Davis and Richard Eaton!
>
> -
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