Koh e Hindaki

Koh e Hindaki
(Persian: کوه هندکی ‎‎)
Koh e Hindaki

Location in the Hindu Kush

Highest point
Elevation 2,199 m (7,215 ft)
Parent peak Hindu Kush
Coordinates 34°27′26.7″N 69°11′30″E / 34.457417°N 69.19167°E / 34.457417; 69.19167Coordinates: 34°27′26.7″N 69°11′30″E / 34.457417°N 69.19167°E / 34.457417; 69.19167
Geography
Location Bagrami District, Kabul Province
Parent range Hindu Kush

Koh e Hindaki, Romanized, "Hendaki", Endakī, Indikki, Indiki, and Hindka’i[1] (Persian: کوه هندکی ‎‎ Mountain of the Hindu Region) is a mountain of the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan.

Located near Bagrami District, Kabul Province,[2] Hindaki is a very large room. The area is located south of Kassa ye Kabul (Kabul Basin), on both sides of the ridges. Hindaki is not a mountain, but a phenomenon of the most important historical significance. Over the history of the area Hindaki has been minimized. Jahan-Numa Palace after the pattern of Jahan Numa in India, (renamed as Chilhil Sutun, also on the pattern of Chehel Setoun of Isfahan ) was on a slope of mountain of Hindaki (2251 m), another mountain on the western side of the south-west of Kabul, about 10 km from this mountain with a height of 2199 m. At the beginning of the 20th Century it is renamed to Koh e Chehel Setoun.[3] Today, this mountain is located in the eastern district of Shah Shayed. Only ruins can be seen not far from Shah Bahar (King Vihara).

Religious significance

Hindaki was and is not only an important religious site for Hindus, but also for other Indo-Iranian religions. Due to this religious significance, these temples were located on the southern part of Afghanistan. Such temples served many religions. In the seventh-famous Zoroastrian fire temple in Baku Azarbajijan, researchers identified Sanskrit inscriptions. Mithra or Mitra and her fire were important not only for Zoroastrianism, but also for Hinduism.

In areas of Hindaki there were very many Hindu mountains and numerous Hindu temples: Koh e Assamai, Kham – e Hindu, Hindu Bagh or Bagh e Hindu ( garden Hindu), Koh e Sher Darwaza, Deh e Hindu, Qalah e Hindu, Hindugozar, Koh e Zanborak, Takht i Shah etc. Hindaki was like Kabul. It is a City, a Province and a coutry. Zanborak Shah and Zanbelak Shah were in pre-Islamic kings of Kabul Shahi dynasty.

According to research by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall in ancient times there were seven great idol monuments and fire temples on the Iranian plateau of Persia.[4][5] He described it as the world's seven wonders. Three of the seven world-famous fire temple lay on the floor of present-day Afghanistan Naubahar[6] near Balch, Shahbahar by Kabul (als Shevaki temple ) and Subbahar in Ghazna, renamed Tap e Sardar in Ghazni. Three of the seven world-famous fire temple lay in Iran as country and one in Baku of Azarbaijan.

In the time of the Zoroastrian Sassanid fire temple, in the time of Kushan-Dynasty Buddhist Stupa, in the time of Hindu-Shahi Hindu Temple and in the time after Islam Ruine. Joseph von Hammer-Purgtall listing these seven temples, which had already mentioned Thomas Hyde (1770) confirmed, namely, that the fire tempel Nush Azar (lovely fire) was in Naubahar of Balkh. He verified the statements of Al-Masudi Muruj adh-dhahab wa ma'adin al-jawhar (Arabic: مروج الذهب ومعادن الجواهر‎ translated The Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems)[7] and Ya'qubi in his book Kitab al-Buldan about Naubahar by Balkh, Shahbahar by Kabul and Subahar by Ghazni.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Chehel Sotoun Kabul see also Chehel Sotoun in Iran
  2. ↑ Fayż Muḥammad Kateb Hazara: Siraj al-tawarikh (Kabul 1933 Persian), p. 2081, at Google Books translate by R. D. McChesney in English and ed. M. M. Khorrami Endlish “The History of Afghanistan”, Leiden-Boston , 2013 ISBN 978-90-04-25606-4
  3. ↑ The History of Afghanistan (6 vol. set) at Google Books
  4. ↑ Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall: Anzeige des Siebenmeers: nebst einem Verzeichnisse mit Wörtern, p. 76, at Google Books Gerold, Wien, 1831, p.p 76
  5. ↑ Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, Anzeige des Siebenmeers: nebst einem Verzeichnisse mit Wörtern Germanischer […], Wien, 1831
  6. ↑ Thomas Hyde: (1770) Veterum Persarum et Parthorum et Medorum religionis historia at Google Books, Historia religionis veterum Persarum eorum que magorum, p.p. 102, 103, 303–305
  7. ↑ Mas'ūdī: Les Prairies d’Or. Texte et traduction par Barbier de Meynard et Pavet de Courteille. 9 vols. Paris 1861–1877. , Vol. 4 de 9, Pg 47, Pg.474

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Fotos about mountain Hindaki since 1920er mountain Chehelsetout

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