Originally posted on Dr. B Karthik Navayan:
How the Buddhists and Jains were Persecuted in Ancient India. Murad A. Baig, http://www.chowk.com/articles/14150 “… Hiuen-Tsang, who visited India from 629 to 645 AD, describes the influence of a south Indian Brahmin queen on her husband who ordered the execution of many thousand Buddhists including 8,000 in Madurai…