Koh e Asamai

Koh e Asamai
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height	2126 m
location	Kabul ( Afghanistan )
Mountains	Hindu Kush
Coordinates	34 ° 31 '12 " N , 69 ° 9' 10" E Coordinates: 34 ° 31 '12 " N , 69 ° 9' 10" E
particularities	religious significance, TV broadcasting system

The Koh e Asamai ( Persian کوه آسمايى) is a mountain in the Afghan capital Kabul .

It is located west of the center and the Kabul River opposite the mountain Sher Darwaza or Shir Darwaza ( Persian شيردروازه, lit. "Lion Gate" or "Great Gate") and ends with the Hindu Kabulshahi around the 4th century BC. Chr. Built Arg Bala Hissar e ( Persian ارگ بالاى حصار). It stretches from the De (h) Afghanen ("Afghanendorf") district to the Nawabad e De (h) mazang district , where the Kabul Zoo is located.

The mountain runs with its three peaks with the heights of 2126 m , 1975 m and 2110 m from northwest to southeast. The antennas for Afghan television and various technical systems are also located there. The mountain is passable.

Religious meaning

Aasma-i , pronounced [Assma-i] ( Persian آسمايى), is a compound of two words of the Indo-Iranian languages, namely Arzu ( Persian آرزو) (Hope) and Ma as an abbreviation of Madr or [Matr], (Sanskrit / Hindko: Assa = hope, Mata / Ma = mother) and should mean mother's hope . The mother plays an important role in Hinduism .

The Koh e Asamai has special meaning for the Hindus and Sikhs in Afghanistan. On its slopes is the oldest Hindu and Sikh temple in Kabul, the ( Persian درمسال آسمايى) Assmai Temple . There were and are numerous Hindu meditation centers in Kabul's old town. In a temple the Hindus worship Ganesha , whose figure dates from the 7th century. Especially shortly after the Nouruz in spring processions or Vaisaki and Baisaki , the pilgrims climb this mountain to pray at the memorial. Ehsan Bayat has renovated the Hindu temples on the hillside and the memorial on Mount Assmai.

In Europe and America, Afghans like to call their Daramsal (Hindu temples) "Assamai temples", even if there are different transcriptions such as B. Assamai , Ahsamai or Assemai there.

literature

Helmut Hahn: The city of Kabul (Afghanistan) and its surroundings . Bonn geographic treatises 34.Dümmler, Bonn 1964.

Individual evidence

↑ In Dari or Persian , vowels and the diacritical Arabic characters such as acute , grave accent and apostrophe and their doubling are not written.

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[1] In Dari or Persian , vowels and the diacritical Arabic characters such as acute , grave accent and apostrophe and their doubling are not written.