A man who had been soaked soak in water , and smothered smother in mud , and lamed lame by stones , and cut cut by flints , and stung stung by nettles , and torn tear by briars ; who limped , and shivered , and glared glare , and growled growl ; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized seize me by the chin .

At that date , the Mohammedan conqueror , Mahmoud of Ghizni , crossed cross India ; seized seize on the holy city of Somnauth ; and stripped strip of its treasures the famous temple , which had stood for centuries -- the shrine of Hindoo pilgrimage , and the wonder of the Eastern world .

The shrine of the four-handed god was polluted pollute by the slaughter slaughter of sacred animals ; the images of the deities were broken break in pieces ; and the Moonstone was seized seize by an officer of rank in the army of Aurungzebe .