34°17′16″N 70°23′17″E / 34.2879°N 70.3881°E / 34.2879; 70.3881Kandibagh or Kindibagh is a village in Chaparhar District, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan.[citation needed]

History

David Bivar speculates that the village might be the Kindi of Ghaznavid sources where Sabuktigin humbled Jayapala's forces and installed a ribāṭ of considerable fame.[1] However, both the latitude and longitude are offset by about a degree when compared to Al-Biruni's records and the village has not been physically surveyed either to detect structural remnants that can be equated to the ribāṭ.[1][a]

Notes

  1. ^ Biruni, who had travelled through the region, recorded the coordinates of "Ribat Kindi / Ribat al-Amir" as 33°40'N 69°50'E (adjusted for longitude) pointing to the western fringes of Logar Valley where, however, Bivar found no evidence for the structure. Coordinates provided by other classical geographers — Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Ulugh Beg, and others — locate the structure at 34°00'N 69°00'E (adjusted for longitude) too but they had never travelled through the region.

References

  1. ^ a b Bivar, A. D. H. (1979). "The stations of al-Bīrūnī on the journey from Ghazna to Peshawar". Al-Bīrūnī : commemorative volume : proceedings of the International Congress held in Pakistan on the occasion of millenary of Abū Raihān Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Bīrūnī 973-ca 1051 A.D., November 26, 1973 thru' December 12, 1973. Karachi: Hamdard National Foundation & Oxford University Press. pp. 169, 173.
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