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Kites used range from 0.5-meter to 1.5 meters across. The usual name for the sport is gudiparan bazi and for the cutting line tar, first described in an article online in 2001. [2] As elsewhere, the line is traditionally made with a cotton line and coated with a mixture of crushed glass and rice glue. [3]
Gudiparan bazi in Dari or kaghazbad in Pashto are some of the local names for kite fighting and kite running in Afghanistan. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] It has been going on in the country for over 100 years. [ 11 ]
In Afghanistan, kite flying is a popular game, and is known in Dari as Gudiparan Bazi. Some kite fighters pass their strings through a mixture of ground glass powder and glue, which is legal. The resulting strings are very abrasive and can sever the competitor's strings more easily. The abrasive strings can also injure people.
Bazai Gonbad or Bozai Gumbaz (Dari: بزای گمبز, lit. 'domes of the elders' [2]) is the site of a domed tomb (or gonbad) and nearby settlement of mostly ethnic Kyrgyz herders in the Wakhan District of Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan. [3]
[34] [35] Even according to illustrious Indian history series: History and Culture of Indian People, Kapisa and Kamboja are equivalent. [36] Scholars like Dr Moti Chandra, Dr Krishna Chandra Mishra etc. also write that the Karpasika (of Mahabharata) [37] and Kapisa (Ki-pin/Ka-pin/Chi-pin of the Chinese writings) are synonymous terms. [38]
Gandhara (IAST: Gandhāra) was an ancient Indo-Aryan [1] civilization centred in present-day north-west Pakistan and north-east Afghanistan. [2] [3] [4] The core of the region of Gandhara was the Peshawar and Swat valleys extending as far east as the Pothohar Plateau in Punjab, though the cultural influence of Greater Gandhara extended westwards into the Kabul valley in Afghanistan, and ...
Bazigar (from Persian: بازیگر bazi + gar), or Goaars, are an ethnic group of north-western India.They are primarily found in Punjab and in Pakistan's Punjab, but there are also communities in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Rajasthan. [1]
Storytelling has an important presence in Iranian culture. [1] In classical Iran, minstrels performed for their audiences at royal courts [1] and in public theaters. [2] A minstrel was referred to by the Parthians as gōsān in Parthian, and by the Sasanians as huniyāgar in Middle Persian. [2]