<p> Jaipur: A group of Jain monks accompanied by VHP leaders on Tuesday went to the Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra in Ajmer, an ASI-protected mosque, and claimed the monument was earlier a Sanskrit school and a Jain temple existed there before the school.</p>.<p>The monks led by Sunil Sagar Maharaj reached the monument from Fawara Circle via Dargah Bazaar.</p>.<p> Deputy Mayor of Ajmer Municipal Corporation Neeraj Jain said that Jain monks were of the view that there was a Jain temple before a Sanskrit school there.</p>.Mosque cleric beaten to death by masked men in Rajasthan's Ajmer.<p>"We have in the past demanded that the monument should be redeveloped and its past glory restored. There are idols kept in a store room in the monument," the deputy mayor said.</p>.<p> According to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) website, the monument is a mosque built by Qutub-ud-Din-Aibak, first Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate, in AD 1199, and is contemporary to the other one built at Qutub Minar complex in Delhi known as Quwal-ul-Islam mosque (power of Islam).</p>.<p> A large number of sculptures of temples are lying in the verandah of the Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra complex, which shows the existence of a Hindu temple in its vicinity during 11th-12th century AD, the website said.</p>.<p> The mosque, built from the dismantled remains of temples, is known as Adhai din ka Jhonpra possibly from the fact that a fair used to be held here for two-and-a-half days, it said.</p>
<p> Jaipur: A group of Jain monks accompanied by VHP leaders on Tuesday went to the Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra in Ajmer, an ASI-protected mosque, and claimed the monument was earlier a Sanskrit school and a Jain temple existed there before the school.</p>.<p>The monks led by Sunil Sagar Maharaj reached the monument from Fawara Circle via Dargah Bazaar.</p>.<p> Deputy Mayor of Ajmer Municipal Corporation Neeraj Jain said that Jain monks were of the view that there was a Jain temple before a Sanskrit school there.</p>.Mosque cleric beaten to death by masked men in Rajasthan's Ajmer.<p>"We have in the past demanded that the monument should be redeveloped and its past glory restored. There are idols kept in a store room in the monument," the deputy mayor said.</p>.<p> According to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) website, the monument is a mosque built by Qutub-ud-Din-Aibak, first Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate, in AD 1199, and is contemporary to the other one built at Qutub Minar complex in Delhi known as Quwal-ul-Islam mosque (power of Islam).</p>.<p> A large number of sculptures of temples are lying in the verandah of the Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra complex, which shows the existence of a Hindu temple in its vicinity during 11th-12th century AD, the website said.</p>.<p> The mosque, built from the dismantled remains of temples, is known as Adhai din ka Jhonpra possibly from the fact that a fair used to be held here for two-and-a-half days, it said.</p>