Temple of Kashi Vishwanth (Vishweshwar) and two Rajput dynasties. The temple was earlier rebuilt by Raja Man Singh of Amer during 16th century after it was demolished by Lodi sultan almost a century ago. Later Vir (Bir) Singh, the Bundela Rajput of Orchha
either rebuilt the temple or fully renovated it with golden casing at the top of shikhara. During Jahangir's time it was known as Temple of Bir Singh. Even after the temple was demolished by Aurangzeb, in early 18th century, it is attributed to the Bundela Rajput.
Raja Jai Singh of Amer built a school nearby the Kashi Vishwanath temple, ans also built the nearby Annapurna temple.
Sidenote: Bir Singh also rebuilt the Krishna Janmbhoomi temple ie Keshavdev temple which was also demolished by Aurangzeb later and still the mosque stand at its place. And Bundelas are descendants from Gahadavalas, who has their capital at Kashi itself and
one of the Gahadavala vassal also rebuilt Mathura temple after it was destroyed by Mahmud Ghazni. Anyway so after the Vishwanath temple was demolished by Aurangzeb, during the life time of Aurangzeb, Bishan Singh of Amer, father of Sawai Jai Singh planned to
rebuilt the temple at Kashi, he purchased quite a land around the precinct even from muslim owners nearby but the building of Vishwanath temple could not be started as he died quite early. His son later Sawai Jai Singh took the project and carried out extensive survey
of the land around the newly built mosque. There was an older of Vishwanath over which a mosque was built during Sultanate period. That was considered the original location of Kashi Vishwanath and was called Adi-Vishweshwar. Jai Singh built a temple at that
location even when Aurangzeb was alive and wanted to pull down the Gyanvapi mosque too but couldn't complete this project. In this old map/painting the old temple of Bishwanthji is the one which was built by Sawai Jai Singh. Later even his son Ishwari Singh also
shown interest in rebuilding Kashi Vishwanath but couldn't materialize. Nonetheless the dedication of Kacchwaha Rajas from Raja Man Singh to Raja Jai Singh, Bishan Singh, Sawai Jai Singh and till Ishwari Singh towards Kashi Vishwanath temple was enormous and apart from that
they also built many temples in Kashi. One Vedhshala ie Jantar Mantar at Man Mandir was also built by Sawai Jai Singh. Their contribution towards other holy sites of Hinduism is outside the scope of this thread.
PS: The painting in the first tweet is from Mewar and is one of the oldest paintings of original kashi vishwanath which was demolished by Aurangzeb.
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