History of Origin of Some Clans in India/Jat From Jutland/Biggest Buddha to Smile Again
History of Origin of Some Clans in India
(with special Reference to Jats)
By Mangal Sen Jindal (1992)
Publisher - Sarup & Sons, 4378/4B, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi-110002, ISBN 81-85431-08-6
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Chapter 1: Jat From Jutland
Biggest Buddha to Smile Again
New Delhi, July 7 (Samacharj-e-The world's biggest Buddha statue at Bamiyan Afghanistan will regain its pristine form in October after a lapse of three centuries.
Experts from the Archaeological Survey of India have been at restoration work since 1969 under a bilateral agreement. Afghan labour and material were used in the work.
The 53 metre-tall, big Buddha, a fifth century monument, was badly damaged in the canon fire during Aurangzeb's expedition to Afghanistan in the late 17th century. This as well as the nearby small Buddha which is 38 metres high, had earlier been ravaged by the hordes of Chengiz Khan. The faces of the two statues had been smashed and large portions of the feet were hanging loose.
The work, being supervised by Mr. R. Sen Gupta, director (conservation), the Archaeological Survey of India, is now in its final phase.
Indian experts have completed the restoration of the Parsa Mosque, another important monument at Balkh.
Indian assistance has also been sought for the restoration of ninth century arch at Bost, near Laskargah 40 km from Kandahar. The arch is inscribed on Afghan currency notes." Times of India, Dated 8-7-1977.
"When Salucus, one of the successors of Alexendar, invaded India in 305 B.C., Chander Gupta defeated him and forced him to conclude a treaty by virtue of which he had to cede to him the whole of Afghanistan." Evolution of Indian Culture, page 182.
"Kashghar, Yarkand Khotan and Kuchi were the significant centres of Buddhism. Flourishing India once dotted the area which now lies buried under the sands of the desert of Gobi. According to the account of the Chinese pilgrim Fa-hien, Indians were living in this region in the early centuries of the Christian era and by the 5th century A.D., the whole of Central
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Asia was completely Indianised." Evolution of Indian Culture, page 309.
"It was well known that there have been friendly and fruitful contacts between the people of India and Iran from the most ancient times. During the time of the Achamaenian Kings of Iran and during the Mauryan period and more particularly during the Buddhist period in India, 2000 to 3000 years ago there was vital contacts between the two countries. Iranian ideas entered into India and Indian philosophy and culture entered Iran. It is well known that Buddhism moved from the North-West of India towards Central Asia and China and to this has left behind in Afghanistan, Iran, Central Asia and China traces of its great contribution"... Speech of Shri B.D. Jatti, Vice-President of India published in Journal of the Indo-Iran Society, New Delhi, September-October, 1975-76, page 6.