Attock Khurd

Coordinates: 33°54′N 72°14′E / 33.900°N 72.233°E / 33.900; 72.233
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Attock Khurd (

Punjab Province in Pakistan.[1] Khurd and Kalan are Persian words, meaning small and big, respectively. The words are themselves derived from Sanskrit
. When two villages have the same name in the same vicinity, they are often distinguished by adding Kalan and Khurd with the villages' names.

History

Ancient history

Attock Khurd (the old city) has a rich history and was of special importance to the entire

Imperial China
.

Attock appears in the history books during the rule of

Buddhist faith. The Edicts of Ashoka
, set in stone, some of them written in Greek, declare that the Greek populations within his realm also had converted to Buddhism:

"Here in the king's domain among the Greeks, the Kambojas, the Nabhakas, the Nabhapamkits, the Bhojas, the Pitinikas, the Andhras and the Palidas, everywhere people are following Beloved-of-the-Gods' instructions in Dharma."
—Rock Edict Nb13 (S. Dhammika).

In the spring of 326 BCE,

Indus constructed by Perdiccas and Hephaestion.[3] The region became part of the Kingdom of Ederatides the Greek or Indo-Greek Kingdom, which extended its power over western Punjab. The Indo-Greek kings held the country after him (until about 80 BCE) until its invasion by the Indo-Scythians
.

Middle Ages

When the Chinese pilgrim

Hiuen Tsang visited the district in 630 CE, and again in 643 CE, Buddhism was rapidly declining. The Brahman revival, to which India owes its present form of Hinduism, was already underway in the early years of the fifth century and must have been at its height in the time of Hiuen Tsang.[citation needed
]

The country was under the rule of the kings of

Sultan Sikandar and continued under Kashmiri rule until the conquest of Babur
.

The city gained more fame from

Lodhi period
.

Early Modern Period

Raghunathrao and Sidhojiraje Gharge-Desai (Deshmukh), in 1758. However, this conquest was short-lived. The Nawab of Punjab again captured Attock Khurd, followed by Ahmad Shah Durrani
's conquest under a treaty with the Nawab, according to which Attock Khurd was divided between the Afghans and the Nawab.

Attock Khurd saw countless battles and skirmishes between the Sikhs and the Afghans in later years.

Late Modern Period

In 1813, the

Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848–1849) but recaptured towards the end.[7]

Sufis and saints

Transportation

The Attock Khurd railway station is situated near Old Attock Bridge on the main railway line. The railway station was built around 1885 during British rule. As of March 2007, it has been renovated and declared a tourist resort.

The station is the gateway to Attock Bridge. All trains running between Rawalpindi and Peshawar pass through this station without stopping here.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Attock Khurd". Attock Khurd. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
  2. ^ See H. Sharfe, Grammatical Literature (Wiesbaden, 1977), p. 88, note 4: "Panini is called Śālāturīya 'man from Śalātura' in an inscription of Śilāditya VII of Valabhī, J. F. Fleet, Corpus Inscr. Ind. Ill, p. 175, in Bhāmaha's Kāvyalaṃkāra VI 62 and in Vardhamāna's Gaṇaratnamahodadhi, commentary on verse 2."
  3. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Alexander III." . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 548. M. A. Foucher, Notes sur la géographie ancienne du Gandhara (commentaire a un chapitre de Hiuen-tsang)", Bulletin de l´École Française d´Extrême-Orient, I, No. 4 (Oct., 1901), pp. 322–369;
  4. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Punjab" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  5. ISBN 81-7304-785-5
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  6. ^ Gazetteer of the Attock District 1930, Punjab Government, Lahore 1932. Reprinted version: Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore, 1989 Pg. 314
  7. ^ Gazetteer of the Attock District 1930, Punjab Government, Lahore 1932. Reprinted version: Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore, 1989 Pg. 314
  8. ^ Abandoned railway station restored, Published in Dawn Newspaper on 3 March 2007

33°54′N 72°14′E / 33.900°N 72.233°E / 33.900; 72.233

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