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E-book Lords of the Mountains : Pre-Islamic Heritage along the Upper Indus in Pakistan

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he Northern Areas, synonymous for the Gilgit Wazarat and colonial Gilgit Agency and Baltistan and federally administered by the central government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, cover an area of 70 332/72 971/72 496 km². Curiously, this part of Pakistan has been designated also during the Buddhist time as “northern region”, Uttar?patha, as witnessed by an inscription from Shing Nala (73 : 1) with iha uttar?pathe, ‘here in the north’ [Map]. Even more definitively the designation is repeated by an inscription at Thalpan (373 : 110) “?ri Buddha labdha travels here in the north” (?ri [bu]ddhalabdha vicarati iha utar?pathe).1The autonomous region, renamed as “Gilgit-Baltistan” in 2009 (henceforth also as G-B), comprises the eight districts of Astor, Diamer, Ghizer, Gilgit and Hunza-Nager under the Gilgit division, and Ghanche, Kharmang, Shigar and Skardu in the Baltistan division [Map].² The Hindukush-Karakorum region stretching from western Kohistan (i.e. mountain land), Nuristan (Kafiristan) and Chitral District to the Shina-Burusho-speaking area around Gilgit and Diamer with eastern Kohistan, but excluding Baltistan and Kashmir (Ka?m?r), has been labelled also with the poetical nickname Peristan, the “land of the pari ” or “fairies’ land”.3 The region of today’s Baltistan refers to the toponym Balt? used by Central Asian historiographers, while it was designated as Little or Lesser Tibet (Tibbat-I khurd) in Moghul and Kashmiri chronicles of the 16th and 17th century. Baltistan embedded in the ranges of the Karakorum in the upper reaches of the Indus River covers an area of around 26,200 km². The region, before 1948 a part of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, is divided into the administrative districts of Kharmang, Khaplu, Shigar, Skardu and Rondu with its administrative centre Skardu. The estimated population of Gilgit-Baltistan comes up to the number of nearly one million and represents a multi-ethnic society. mythical land called Dardistan occurs in the literature. In colonial times the whole mountain region west of the Indus River as far as Afghanistan was summarized under the legendary term as ‘Yaghistan’, “the land of the free” or “the land of ungovernable savages”. The region east of the Indus was seen as part of Kashmir. Gottfried Wilhelm Leitner identi-fied the Yaghi as Dards, the possible descendants of the Daradae or Dardai of the classical descriptions and the Daradas of the Sanskrit literature. The toponym Daraddes’a occurs in the R?jatarangi??, a chronicle of the “Kings of Ka?m?r”, which was written by the scholar and poet Kalha?a in the 12th century.5 Darat-puri, ‘the town of the Dards’, was the residence of its rulers, which has been located at the modern place Gurez in the upper Kishanganga Valley.6Their settlements in a region around the Upper Kishanganga and its tributaries seem to have formed a little kingdom, which according the Chronicle was called Daraddes’a.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

930.15491 HAU l

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Germany : Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP)., 2024

Deskripsi Fisik

431 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783968222691

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930.15491

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text

Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Archaeology in Pakistan

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