Thursday 5 August 2021

Chilzina (forty steps) of Kandahar

 From British Library :-

"Chilzina is a rock-cut chamber on the northern side of the old citadel [of Kandahar] and is accessed by forty steps. A Persian inscription at the site reveals that the chamber was completed under the patronage of the Moghul Emperor Babur in the 16th century. The old citadel was destroyed by Nadir Shah Afshar of Persia in 1738."  1


Staircase of 40 steps (chilzina) leading to the entrance of a chamber carved in the mountain, near Kandahar, Afghanistan, 1915. From the album "Afghanistan" by Oskar von Nidermajer. Source


Rock chamber containing the inscription by Mughal emperor Babur, reached by forty steps (chilzina), near Kandahar, Afghanistan, 1915.. Published in the book Oskar von Niedermeyer "Afghanistan" (Leipzig, 1924). Source


Chihal Zina (the forty steps), Kandahar, Afghanistan, 1880. A man selling dry fruits in the foreground. Photo by Benjamin Simpson. Source


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