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| Coordinates | 34°35′51″N69°06′32″E / 34.597560°N 69.10902°E /34.597560; 69.10902 |
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| Type | Brahmanical Temple |
Khair Khaneh is an archaeological site located nearKabul,Afghanistan that was excavated in the 1930s byJoseph Hackin.[5][6][7]
Some scholars have considered the marble statue found at the site to be ofMithra. Stating that the solar deity of Khair Khaneh is as close as possible to the Iranian Mithra and that identity with Mithras is put beyond doubt by numismatic evidence[8]
A Brahmanical Temple was excavated there. The construction of the Khair Khaneh temple itself is dated to 608-630 CE, at the beginning of the Turk Shahis period.[9] Most of the remains, including marble statuettes, date to the 7th–8th century, during the time of theTurk Shahi.[5][10][11]
Aremarkable marble statue[12] of thesolar deity inHinduism, lordSurya, in tunic and boots was discovered in Khair Khaneh.[12] The statue is associated to theTurk Shahi period, whenHinduism was still a religion in Afghanistan.[12]
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Khair Khaneh is situated in the pass separating the Kabul Valley from Kohistan (which includes Begram). Kushano–Sasanian and early Hindu art motifs mingle in a whitish-gray marble statue of the Sun God (either Surya or Mithra) seated on a ...
To overcome the difficulty that Pingala wears a beard , the Kabirs had to be introduced , Great Gods of Samothrake who ... This feature brings the sun - god of Khair Khaneh as close as possible to the Iranian Mithras , who guides the soul of the ...
"This feature brings the sun-god of Khair Khaneh as close as possible to the Iranian Mithras, who guides the soul of the deceased to the other world, passes Judgment on it, and offers it the drink of immortality. In weighing the actions of the dead he is helped by Rashnu and Sraosha. The sun-god^s identity with Mithras is put beyond doubt by the coins of Kanishka and Huvishka."
It is not therefore possible to attribute these pieces to the Hindu Shahi period. They should be attributed to the Shahi period before the Hindu Shahis originated by the Brahman wazir Kallar, that is, the Turki Shahis. According to the above sources, Hinduism and Buddhism are properly supposed to have coexisted especially during the 7th-8th centuries A.D. just before the Muslim hegemony. The marble sculptures from eastern Afghanistan should not be attributed to the period of the Hindu Shahis but to that of the Turki Shahis.
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