https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Hindu_KushHindu Kush - Revision history2026-10-26T00:59:41ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.6https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hindu_Kush&diff=441691&oldid=prevBharatwiki Socrates: /* Other names */2023-12-16T02:43:18Z<p><span class="autocomment">Other names</span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In [[Vedic Sanskrit]], the range was known as ''upariśyena'', and in [[Avestan]], as ''upāirisaēna'' (from [[Proto-Iranian]] *''upārisaina''- 'covered with juniper').<ref>{{Cite book|last=Thapar|first=Romila|title=Which of Us are Aryans?: Rethinking the Concept of Our Origins|date=2019|publisher=Aleph|isbn=978-93-88292-38-2|pages=1|author-link=Romila Thapar}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Schmitt|first=Rüdiger|date=2007|title=Iškata|url=https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/iskata|website=Encyclopaedia Iranica}}</ref> It can alternatively be interpreted as "beyond the reach of eagles".<ref>{{cite book | last=Griffiths | first=Arlo | title=The Vedas: Texts, Language & Ritual | publisher=Egbert Forsten | publication-place=Groningen | year=2004 | isbn=90-6980-149-3 | oclc=57477186 | page=594 |url=https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~rnoyer/courses/51/Witzel2002.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730063254/http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~rnoyer/courses/51/Witzel2002.pdf |archive-date=2012-07-30 |url-status=live}}</ref> In the time of [[Alexander the Great]], the mountain range was referred to as the ''Caucasus Indicus'' (as opposed to the [[Greater Caucasus]] range between the [[Caspian Sea|Caspian]] and [[Black Sea]]s), and as ''Paropamisos'' (see ''[[Paropamisadae]]'') by [[Hellenistic period|Hellenic Greeks]] in the late first millennium BCE.<ref name="Vogelsang">{{Cite book|last1=Vogelsang|first1=Willem|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9kfJ6MlMsJQC&pg=PA1|title=The Afghans|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|year=2002|isbn=978-0-631-19841-3|access-date=22 August 2010}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In [[Vedic Sanskrit]], the range was known as ''upariśyena'', and in [[Avestan]], as ''upāirisaēna'' (from [[Proto-Iranian]] *''upārisaina''- 'covered with juniper').<ref>{{Cite book|last=Thapar|first=Romila|title=Which of Us are Aryans?: Rethinking the Concept of Our Origins|date=2019|publisher=Aleph|isbn=978-93-88292-38-2|pages=1|author-link=Romila Thapar}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Schmitt|first=Rüdiger|date=2007|title=Iškata|url=https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/iskata|website=Encyclopaedia Iranica}}</ref> It can alternatively be interpreted as "beyond the reach of eagles".<ref>{{cite book | last=Griffiths | first=Arlo | title=The Vedas: Texts, Language & Ritual | publisher=Egbert Forsten | publication-place=Groningen | year=2004 | isbn=90-6980-149-3 | oclc=57477186 | page=594 |url=https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~rnoyer/courses/51/Witzel2002.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730063254/http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~rnoyer/courses/51/Witzel2002.pdf |archive-date=2012-07-30 |url-status=live}}</ref> In the time of [[Alexander the Great]], the mountain range was referred to as the ''Caucasus Indicus'' (as opposed to the [[Greater Caucasus]] range between the [[Caspian Sea|Caspian]] and [[Black Sea]]s), and as ''Paropamisos'' (see ''[[Paropamisadae]]'') by [[Hellenistic period|Hellenic Greeks]] in the late first millennium BCE.<ref name="Vogelsang">{{Cite book|last1=Vogelsang|first1=Willem|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9kfJ6MlMsJQC&pg=PA1|title=The Afghans|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|year=2002|isbn=978-0-631-19841-3|access-date=22 August 2010}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Some 19th-century encyclopedias and gazetteers state that the term ''Hindu Kush'' originally applied only to the peak in the area of the [[Kushan Pass]], which had become a center of the [[Kushan Empire]] by the first century.<ref>1890,1896 ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' s.v. "Afghanistan", Vol I p.228.;<br />1893, 1899 ''Johnson's Universal Encyclopedia'' Vol I p.61.;<br />1885 ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'', V. I p. 30.;<br />1850 ''A Gazetteer of the World'' Vol I p. 62.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Some 19th-century encyclopedias and gazetteers state that the term ''Hindu Kush'' originally applied only to the peak in the area of the [[Kushan Pass]], which had become a center of the [[Kushan Empire]] by the first century.<ref>1890,1896 ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' s.v. "Afghanistan", Vol I p.228.;<br />1893, 1899 ''Johnson's Universal Encyclopedia'' Vol I p.61.;<br />1885 ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'', V. I p. 30.;<br />1850 ''A Gazetteer of the World'' Vol I p. 62.</ref></div></td></tr>
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