13 9 8 Haridwar Maha Kumbh massacre
The Mahakumbama is a major religious festival in India. The annual Aquarius is organized annually, but the Mahakumbh, which is held every 12 years, is held in four different places in the country. One of these places is Haridwar, where there was a Mahakumbrum fair from January to April 2010
Although this fair is very popular in Haridwar and millions of people come from abroad to participate in this, but with a world-famous Haridwar Maha Kumbh, there is also a painful aspect of history associated with it. This is a painful aspect, the massive massacre of devotees gathered in Haridwar by Muslim ruler Timur in 1398.
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After the reign of Rajputs came to power in 1196, Delhi came under the control of Muslim rulers. In the year 1206, Muhammad Ghauri died and his governor Qutbuddin Aibak declared himself a sultan of Delhi. Then the Haridwar area was also part of its state.
In 1217, Sultan of the Ghulam dynasty, Shamsuddin Altamas, took control of the Shivalik region, including the Mandavas. In 1253, Sultan Naseeruddin reached Haridwar with the army, conquering the Kings of Punjab, and after staying for a few days crossed the Ganges and went towards Badayun. Proof of extinction from Ajmeripur excavation results in this period.
History is known from the time that Timur had massacred at large scale during his time in Kumbh. The situation here is not clear for some period after the Ghulam dynasty. According to 'Date-A-Firoz Shahi' written by Jia-ud-din Bunny, Mohammed Tughalak had taken possession of the Doab of Ganga-Yamuna till the Shivalik hills. Then Saharanpur city was constructed in terms of administrative system, which came under Sultan Firoz Shah in 1379. In 1387, Ferozeshah Tughlaq came here again. In the Saharanpur Gazetteer, historian Nebill writes that he hunted in the forests of Dehradun. In the reign of Tughlaq Sultans, Amir Zafar Timur of Khurasan attacked Hindustan and in 1398 demolished Delhi and reached Haridwar along the banks of the Ganga. Taimur writes in his autobiography 'Tuj-e-Taimur' or 'Malfu-e-Taimur', "When I conquered Malik Sheikh, my intelligence gave me news that in two kos from here, in Kutila valley A large number of Hindus have gathered with their wives and children, they have lot of wealth and animals etc., by receiving this news, I pay a third pahar prayer to Amir Suleman along with Darra-e-Kutila The left '.
Timur's historian Sharifuddin Yajadi writes in his book 'Jafnama', 'Draa-e-Kutila', 'Draa-e-Kupila' and tells the situation of the Gangadwar in Darra-e-Kupila. He says that after going out of the Ganges, the Ganga flows into the Ku-pi-la valley. Archaeologist Cunningham regards 'Ku-pi-la' as the 'Koh-pari' meaning 'mountain stairs' and 'Hari Ki Padi'.
It is clear from both the statement of Timur and its historian Sharifuddin that the name of Kapil Tirtha or Kapil place referred to in Mahabharata was in some way prevalent in the fourteenth century. As far as the massacre is concerned, the description of Sharifuddin's description is a picture of Timur's description. The description of the bath bath and the father-in-law of Gangadwar corresponds to the description of Yavan-Chwan [Hsansang] and the historian of Mahmud Atvi. From this description it is clear that before the bathing of Timur, Haridwar came on Vaisakhi. Along with the massacre, he had created a catastrophe in the then city of Mayapur. According to the calculation of the Kumbh festival, which took place at the interval of twelve years, the massacre carried by Taimur took place 600 years ago in 1398. This was the time of the Kumbh festival. Also see them
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