Hindu Kush means Hindu Slaughter - by Shrinandan Vyas

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Hindu Kush means Hindu Slaughter

By Shrinandan Vyas

All the Encyclopedias and National Geographic agree that Hindu Kush
region is a place of Hindu genocide (similar to Dakau and Auschwitz).
All the references are given. Please feel free to verify them.
ABSTRACT

All Standard reference books agree that the name 'Hindu Kush' of the
mountain range in Eastern Afganistan means 'Hindu Slaughter' or
'Hindu Killer'. History also reveals that until 1000 A.D. the area of
Hindu Kush was a full part of Hindu cradle. More likely, the mountain
range was deliberately named as 'Hindu Slaughter' by the Moslem
conquerors, as a lesson to the future generations of Indians. However
Indians in general, and Hindus in particular are completely oblivious
to this tragic genocide. This article also looks into the reasons
behind this ignorance.

21 References - (Mainly Encyclopedia Britannica & other reference
books, National Geographic Magazines and standard history books).

INTRODUCTION

The Hindu Kush is a mountain system nearly 1000 miles long and 200
miles wide, running northeast to southwest, and dividing the Amu
Darya River Valley and Indus River Valley. It stretches from the
Pamir Plateau near Gilgit, to Iran. The Hindu Kush ranges mainly run
thru Afganistan and Pakistan. It has over two dozen summits of more
than 23,000 ft in height. Below the snowy peaks the mountains of
Hindu Kush appear bare, stony and poor in vegetation. Historically,
the passes across the Hindu Kush have been of great military
significance, providing access to the northern plains of India. The
Khyber Pass constitutes an important strategic gateway and offers a
comparatively easy route to the plains of Punjab. Most foreign
invaders, starting from Alexander the Great in 327 BC, to Timur Lane
in 1398 AD, and from Mahmud of Ghazni, in 1001 AD, to Nader Shah in
1739 AD attacked Hindustan via the Khyber Pass and other passes in
the Hindu Kush (1,2,3). The Greek chroniclers of Alexander the Great
called Hindu Kush as Parapamisos or Paropanisos (4). The Hindu name
of the Hindu Kush mountains was 'Paariyaatra Parvat'(5).

EARLY HISTORY OF HINDU KUSH REGION (UP TO 1000 AD)

History of Hindu Kush and Punjab shows that two major kingdoms of
Gandhaar & Vaahic Pradesh (Balkh of Bactria) had their borders
extending far beyond the Hindu Kush. Legend has it that the kingdom
of Gandhaar was established by Taksha, grandson of Bharat of Ayodhya
(6). Gandhaar's borders extended from Takshashila to Tashkent
(corruption of 'Taksha Khand') in the present day Uzbekistan. In the
later period, Mahabharat relates Gaandhaari as a princess of Gandhaar
and her brother, Shakuni as a prince and later as Gandhaar's ruler.

In the well documented history, Emperor Chandragupt Maurya took
charge of Vaahic Pradesh around 325 BC and then took over Magadh.
Emperor Ashok's stone tablets with inscriptions in Greek and Aramaic
are still found at Qandahar (corruption of Gandhaar?) and Laghman in
eastern Afganistan(3). One such stone tablet, is shown in the PBS TV
series 'Legacy with Mark Woods' in episode 3 titled 'India: The
Spiritual Empire'. After the fall of Mauryan empire, Gandhaar was
ruled by Greeks. However some of these Greek rulers had converted to
Buddhism, such as Menander, known to Indian historians as Milinda,
while some other Greeks became followers of Vishnav sects
(Hinduism)(7). Recent excavations in Bactria have revealed a golden
hoard which has among other things a figurine of a Greek goddess with
a Hindu mark on its forehead (Bindi) showing the confluence of Hindu-
Greek art (8). Later Shaka and KushaaN ruled Gandhaar and Vaahic
Pradesh. KushaaN emperor Kanishka's empire stretched from Mathura to
the Aral Sea (beyond the present day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and
Krygzystan)(9).

Kanishaka was a Buddhist and under KushaaN influence Buddhism
flourished in Gandhaar. Two giant sandstone Buddhas carved into the
cliffs of Bamian (west of Kabul) date from the Kushan period. The
larger Buddha (although defaced in later centuries by Moslem
invaders) is about 175 ft tall (10,11). The Kushan empire declined by
450 AD. The Chinese traveller Hsuan-Tsang (Xuan-zang) travelled thru
the region in 7 th century AD and visited many Buddhist religious
centers (3) including Hadda, Ghazni, Qonduz, Bamian (3,10,11),
Shotorak and Bagram. From the 5 th thru 9 th cenury AD Persian
Sasanians and Hepthalites ruled Gandhaar. During their rule Gandhaar
region was again influenced by Hinduism. The Hindu kings (Shahiya)
were concentrated in the Kabul and Ghazni areas. The last Hindu
Shahiya king of Kabul, Bhimapal was killed in 1026 AD. The heroic
efforts of the Hindu Shahiya Kings to defend the northwestern gates
of India against the invaders are described by even al-Biruni, the
court historian of Mahmud of Ghazni (12). Some excavated sites of the
period include a major Hindu Shahiya temple north of Kabul and a
chapel that contains both Buddhist and Hindu images, indicating that
there was a mingling of two religions (3).

Islamic invasions on Afganistan started in 642 AD, but over the next
several centuries their effect was marginal and lasted only a short
time after each raid. Cities surrendered only to rise in revolt and
the hastily converted returned to their old religion (Hinduism or
Buddhism) once the Moslem armies had passed (3).

THUS TILL THE YEAR 1000 AD AFGANISTAN WAS A FULL PART OF HINDU
CRADLE.

HINDU KUSH AND THE HINDU GENOCIDE

Now Afganistan is a Moslem country. Logically, this means either one
or more of the following must have happened:

a) original residents of Hindu Kush converted to Islam, or
b) they were slaughtered and the conquerors took over, or
c) they were driven out.

Encyclopedia Britannica (3) already informs us above about the
resistance to conversion and frequent revolt against to the Moslem
conqueror's rule from 8 th thru 11 th Century AD. The name 'Hindu
Kush' itself tells us about the fate of the original residents of
Gandhaar and Vaahic Pradesh during the later period of Moslem
conquests, because HINDU KUSH in Persian MEANS HINDU SLAUGHTER (13)
(as per Koenraad Elst in his book 'Ayodhya and After'). Let us look
into what other standard references say about Hindu Kush.

Persian-English dictionary (14) indicates that the word 'Kush' is
derived from the verb Kushtar - to slaughter or carnage. Kush is
probably also related to the verb Koshtan meaning to kill. In Urdu,
the word Khud-kushi means act of killing oneself (khud - self, Kushi-
act of killing). Encyclopedia Americana comments on the Hindu Kush as
follows: The name Hindu Kush means literally 'Kills the Hindu', a
reminder of the days when (Hindu) SLAVES from Indian subcontinent
died in harsh Afgan mountains while being transported to Moslem
courts of Central Asia (15). The National Geographic Article 'West of
Khyber Pass' informs that 'Generations of raiders brought captive
Hindus past these peaks of perpetual snow. Such bitter journeys gave
the range its name Hindu Kush - "Killer of Hindus"'(10). The World
Book Encyclopedia informs that the name Kush, .. means Death ..(16).
While Encyclopedia Britannica says 'The name Hindu Kush first appears
in 1333 AD in the writings of Ibn Battutah, the medieval Berber
traveller, who said the name meant 'Hindu Killer', a meaning still
given by Afgan mountain dwellers who are traditional enemies of
Indian plainsmen (i.e. Hindus)(2). However, later the Encyclopedia
Britannica gives a negationist twist by adding that 'more likely the
name is a corruption of Hindu-Koh meaning Hindu mountains'. This is
unlikely, since the term Koh is used in its proper, uncorrupted form
for the western portion of Hindu Kush, viz. Koh-i-Baba, for the
region Swat Kohistan, and in the names of the three peaks of this
range, viz. Koh-i-Langer, Koh-i-Bandakor, and Koh-i-Mondi. Thus to
say that corruption of term Koh to Kush occurred only in case of
Hindu Kush is merely an effort to fit in a deviant observation to a
theory already proposed. In science, a theory is rejected if it does
not agree with the observations, and not the other way around. Hence
the latter negationist statement in the Encyclopedia Britannica must
be rejected.

IT IS SIGNIFICANT THAT ONE OF THE FEW PLACE NAMES ON EARTH THAT
REMINDS US NOT OF THE VICTORY OF THE WINNERS BUT RATHER THE SLAUGHTER
OF THE LOSERS, CONCERNS A GENOCIDE OF HINDUS BY THE MOSLEMS (13).

Unlike the Jewish holocaust, the exact toll of the Hindu genocide
suggested by the name Hindu Kush is not available. However the number
is easily likely to be in millions. Few known historical figures can
be used to justify this estimate. Encyclopedia Britannica informs
that in December 1398 AD, Timur Lane ordered the execution of at
least 50,000 captives before the battle for Delhi, .. and after the
battle those inhabitants (of Delhi) not killed were removed (as
slaves) (17), while other reference says that the number of captives
butchered by Timur Lane's army was about 100,000 (18). Later on
Encyclopedia Britannica mentions that the (secular?) Mughal emperor
Akbar 'ordered the massacre of about 30,000 (captured) Rajput Hindus
on February 24, 1568 AD, after the battle for Chitod' (19). Another
reference indicates that this massacre of 30,000 Hindu peasants at
Chitod is recorded by Abul Fazl, Akbar's court historian himself
(20). These two 'one day' massacres are sufficient to provide a
reference point for estimating the scale of Hindu genocide. The Afgan
historian Khondamir records that during one of the many repeated
invasions on the city of Herat in western Afganistan, 1,500,000
residents perished (11).

Since some of the Moslem conquerors took Indian plainsmen as slaves,
a question comes: whatever happened to this slave population? The
startling answer comes from New York Times (May-June 1993 issues).
The Gypsies are wandering peoples in Europe. They have been
persecuted in almost every country. Nazis killed 300,000 gypsies in
the gas chambers. These Gypsies have been wandering around Central
Asia and Europe since around the 12 th Century AD. Until now their
country of origin could not be identified. Also their Language has
had very little in common with the other European languages. Recent
studies however show that their language is similar to Punjabi and to
a lesser degree to Sanskrit. Thus the Gypsies most likely originated
from the greater Punjab. The time frame of Gypsy wanderings also
coincides early Islamic conquests hence most likely their ancestors
were driven out of their homes in Punjab and taken as slaves over the
Hindu Kush.

The theory of Gypsie origins in India was first proposed over two
centuries ago. It is only recently theta linguistic and other proofs
have been verified. Even the Gypsie leadership now accepts India as
the country of their origin.

Thus it is evident that the mountain range was named as Hindu Kush as
a reminder to the future Hindu generations of the slaughter and
slavery of Hindus during the Moslem conquests.

DELIBERATE IGNORANCE ABOUT HINDU KUSH

If the name Hindu Kush relates such a horrible genocide of Hindus,
why are Hindus ignorant about it? and why the Government of India
does not teach them about Hindu Kush? The history and geography
curriculums in Indian Schools barely even mention Hindu Kush. The
horrors of the Jewish holocaust are taught not only in schools in
Israel and USA, but also in Germany. Because both Germany and Israel
consider the Jewish holocaust a 'dark chapter' in the history. The
Indian Government instead of giving details of this 'dark chapter' in
Indian history is busy in whitewash of Moslem atrocities and the
Hindu holocaust. In 1982, the National Council of Educational
Research and Training issued a directive for the rewriting of school
texts. Among other things it stipulated that: 'Characterization of
the medieval period as a time of conflict between Hindus and Moslems
is forbidden'. Thus denial of history or Negationism has become
India's official 'educational' policy (21).

Often the official governmental historians brush aside questions such
as those that Hindu Kush raises. They argue that the British version
is the product of their 'divide and rule' policy' hence their version
is not necessarily true. However it must be remembered that the
earliest reference of the name Hindu Kush and its literal meaning
'Hindu Killer' comes from Ibn Battutah in 1333 AD, and at that time
British were nowhere on the Indian scene. Secondly, if the name
indeed was a misnomer then the Afgans should have protested against
such a barbaric name and the last 660 plus years should have been
adequate for a change of name to a more 'civil' name. There has been
no effort for such a change of name by the Afgans. On the contrary,
when the Islamic fundamentalist regime of the Mujahadeens came to
power in 1992, tens of thousands of Hindus and Sikhs from Kabul,
became refugees, and had to pay steep ransom to enter into Pakistan
without a visa.

In the last 46 years the Indian Government also has not even once
demanded that the Afgan Government change such an insulting and
barbaric name. But in July 1993, the Government of India asked the
visiting Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra to change its name because the
word Jerusalem in its name is offensive to Moslem Fundamentalists.

CONCLUSION

It is evident that Hindus from ancient India's (Hindustan's) border
states such as Gandhaar and Vaahic Pradesh were massacred or taken as
slaves by the Moslem invaders who named the region as Hindu Kush (or
Hindu Slaughter,or Hindu Killer) to teach a lesson to the future
Hindu generations of India. Unfortunately Hindus are not aware of
this tragic history. The Indian government does not want the true
history of Hindu Moslem conflicts during the medieval ages to be
taught in schools. This policy of negationism is the cause behind the
ignorance of Hindus about the Hindu Kush and the Hindu genocide.

COMMENTS & FUTURE WORK

Although in this article Hindu Kush has been referred to as Hindu
slaughter, it is quite possible that it was really a Hindu and
Buddhist slaughter. Since prior to Moslem invasions influence of
Buddhism in Gandhaar and Vaahic Pradesh was considerable. Also as the
huge 175 ft stone Buddhas of Bamian show, Buddhists were idol
worshipers par excellence. Hence for Moslem invaders the Buddhists
idol worshipers were equally deserving of punishment. It is also
likely that Buddhism was considered an integral part of the Hindu
pantheon and hence was not identified separately.

This article barely scratches the surface of the Hindu genocide, the
true depth of which is as yet unknown. Readers are encouraged to find
out the truth for themselves . Only when many readers search for the
truth, the real magnitude of the Hindu genocide will be discovered.

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pp.57-58, 1993

More at:
http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/modern/hindu_kush.html

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> "Myself, Mallu. Yourself?" (V. Bhattathiri) <KalluMallu...@gmail.com>

> tries his best to be a bully -- telling others what and when to post,
> where to post and where not to post, deliberately publishing lies
> about others, stalking and abusing them with hate speech -- but fails
> miserably. He is really stressed out, and like his lap dog Prem

> Thomas (who currently posts as "P. Rajah" <u...@this.com>, and issues

> *death threats* to people), is priming himself for conditions such as
> stroke and heart disease. Others in the Goon Squad include

> Dayashankar M. Joshi "DMJoshi" <josh...@gmail.com> who displays

> unquestioning obedience to Goon Squad thugs, and the instigator who
> posts as "Bholu" <bh...@hotmail.com>
>
> The Goon Squad currently post most of their abuse through eternal-
> september.org and by writing someone else's name or handle in the

> "From:" header -- their favorite now is "fanab...@gmail.com" (note

> the extra "b" and "gmail.com") to make it appear as if the posts are

> from "fana...@aol.com", who has been a regular poster for many years.

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