\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 During their rule a number of Shiva temples were not only inAfghanistan\u00a0but in other West Asian regions too. Uzbekistan and Takzikistan formed part of the\u00a0Afghan\u00a0kingdom in those times. Tashkent has one of those ancient Shiva temples standing even today.<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cKalhan\u201c, the ancient\u00a0Hindu\u00a0historian of Kashmir has mentioned that the army of the then\u00a0Hindu\u00a0ruler of Kashmir had a battle with a vast army of the Arab Khalifa Mamoon whose headquarters was Baghdad. At that time Bukhara had been under Muslim rule. He had invited a number of leading\u00a0Hinduexperts to Baghdad.<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An Ayurvedic practitioner of Varansi (alias Benares) had treated the Khalifa for some ailment afflicting the latter. In those days it was\u00a0Hindu\u00a0Ayurvedic practitioners who were eagerly sought by Arab patients. A number of Arabs had translated Sanskrit Ayurvedic texts into Arabic. A list of those translated Sanskrit texts appears in a Volume known as al \u201cFrisht\u201c.<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Baku (capital of the Azerbaijan region) known for its underground petroleum yields has still an ancient\u00a0Hindu\u00a0temple of the Divine Flame generated by the subterranean petrol and gas). During the Czar regimes in Russia a Punjabi priest officiated at that temple.<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The walls display some religious stanzas written in Punjabi Gurumakhi script. The market there also had\u00a0Hindu\u00a0merchants. Nearby was a locality too of\u00a0Hinduinhabitants. Baku in Azerbaijani language actually signifies a Goddess. Therefore obviously Baku derives its name from a very ancient Vedic Goddess temple there.<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kenduj a province of\u00a0Afghanistan, ruled by a king that had a\u00a0Hinduprime minister. This is mentioned in\u00a0history\u00a0books. Albirruni\u2019s travel account contains details of ancient\u00a0Hindu\u00a0Afghanistan, He mentions aHindu\u00a0king, Khingla whose coins bore the imprint of Shiva.<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When Hs\u00fcan-tsang visited the region early in the 7th century CE, the Kabul valley region was ruled by a\u00a0Hindu\u00a0Kshatriya king, who is identified as the Shahi Khingal, and whose name has been found in an inscription found in Gardez.<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The place where Kabul’s main mosque stands today was the site of an ancient\u00a0Hindu\u00a0temple and the story of its capture is kept alive in IslamicAfghan\u00a0legend which describes the Islamic hero Sabuktagin who fought with a sword in every hand to defeat the\u00a0Hindus\u00a0and destroy their temple to put up a Mosque in its place.<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The recovery and significance of the inscription, telling a story of the Hindu\u00a0ruler Veka and his devotion to lord ‘Siva’, was told by leading epigraphist and archaeologist Prof Ahmad Hasan Dani of the Quaid-E-Azam University of Islamabad at the ongoing Indian\u00a0History\u00a0Congress here. \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The name “Afghanistan” comes from “Upa-Gana-stan” which means in Sanskrit “the place inhabited by… more ![\"bamiyan-buddha2\"](\"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bamiyan-buddha2.jpg\")
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