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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.
Kite types, kite mooring, and kite applications result in a variety of kite control systems.Contemporary manufacturers, kite athletes, kite pilots, scientists, and engineers are expanding the possibilities.
Širikti-šuqamuna, inscribed phonetically in cuneiform m ši-rik-ti-d šu-qa-mu-nu and meaning “gift of (the god) Šuqamuna”, c. 981 BC, succeeded his fellow “son of Bazi,” Ninurta-kudurrῑ-uṣur I, as 3rd king of the Bῑt-Bazi or 6th Dynasty of Babylon and exercised the kingship for just 3 months, an insufficient time to merit an official regnal year.
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]
Bacha bazi carries the death penalty under Taliban law. [21] Article 170 of the first General Penal Code of Afghanistan, which was adopted in 1921 and called for a fine and jail time for keeping bachas, was the first law on bacha bazi in the history of modern Afghanistan. [22]
The only extant source is the Diwan-i Farruhi, a Persian chronicle by Abul-Hasan Ali describing Mahmud of Ghazni's invasion (1025 AD) of Mansura, the erstwhile capital of Sindh. [5]