Zunbils
Zunbils were a dynasty in what is now eastern Afghanistan, related to their contemporaries, the Shahis.
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It follows from Huei-ch'ao's report that Barhatakin had two sons :one who ruled from after him in Kapisa-Gandhara and another who became king of Zabul .[1] |
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History
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The Zunbils ruled in the Kandahar area for nearly 250 years until the late 9th century AD .[2] |
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Saffarid and Zunbil Struggles
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One of the most important aspects of early Saffarid policy of significance for the spread of Islam in Afghanistan and on the borders of India long after their empire had collapsed was that of expansion into east Afghanistan. The early Arab governors of Sistan had at times penetrated as far as Ghazana and Kabul ,but these had been little more than slave and plunder raids. There was a fierce resistance from the local rulers of these regions, above all from the line of Zunbils who ruled in Zamindavar and Zabulistan and who were probably epigoni of the southern Hepthalite or Chionite kingdom of Zabul; on more than one occasion,these Zunbils inflicted sharp defeats on the Muslims. The Zunbils were linked with the Kabul-Shahs of the Turk Shahi dynasty; the whole river valley was at this time culturally and religiously an outpost of the Indian world, as of course it had been in the earlier centuries durying the heyday of the Buddhist Gandhara civillization[3] |
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See also
References
- ^ History of Civilizations of central Asia, B A Litivinsky Zhang Guang-Da ,R Shabani Samghabadi, Page 376
- ^ Excavations at Kandahar 1974 & 1975 (Society for South Asian Studies Monograph) by Anthony McNicoll
- ^ The Cambridge History of Iran By Richard Nelson Frye, William Bayne Fisher, John Andrew Boyle Edition: reissue, illustrated Published by Cambridge University Press, 1975 Page 111 ISBN 0-521-20093-8, 9780521200936