हिन्दु कुश (Hindi Wikipedia)

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Himalaya, Michael Palin, Basil Pao, Macmillan, 2005, ISBN 978-0-312-34162-6, ... the solitary bulk of Tirich Mir, 25228 feet (7708 m), the highest mountain in the Hindu Kush ...
Discover Afghanistan, Richard Spilsbury, The Rosen Publishing Group, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4488-6619-9, ... Highest Point: Noshak 24557 feet (7485 m) ...
World and Its Peoples Archived 2014-09-11 at the वेबैक मशीन, Marshall Cavendish, Marshall Cavendish, 2006, ISBN 978-0-7614-7571-2, ... In Pakistan, a separate range — the Hindu Raj — runs south of, and parallel to, the Hindu Kush. A series of high passes penetrates the Hindu Kush, which is less of a barrier to the movement of peoples than its great height might suggest ...
[a] Michael Franzak (2010). A Nightmare's Prayer: A Marine Harrier Pilot's War in Afghanistan. Simon and Schuster. p. 241. ISBN 978-1-4391-9499-7.;
[b] Ehsan Yarshater (2003). Encyclopædia Iranica. The Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation. p. 312. ISBN 978-0-933273-76-4.
[c] James Wynbrandt (2009). A Brief History of Pakistan. Infobase Publishing. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-8160-6184-6.;
[d] Encyclopedia Americana. Vol. 14. 1993. p. 206.;
[e] André Wink (2002). Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World: Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam 7th–11th Centuries. BRILL Academic. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-391-04173-8., Quote: "(..) the Muslim Arabs also applied the name 'Khurasan' to all the Muslim provinces to the east of the Great Desert and up to the Hindu-Kush ('Hindu killer') mountains, the Chinese desert and the Pamir mountains".
Runion, Meredith L. (2017-04-24). The History of Afghanistan, 2nd Edition (अंग्रेज़ी भाषा में). ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-61069-778-1. The literal translation of the name "Hindu Kush" is a true reflection of its forbidding topography, as this difficult and jagged section of Afghanistan translates to "Killer of Hindus."
Weston, Christine (1962). Afghanistan (अंग्रेज़ी भाषा में). Scribner. To the north and northeast, magnificent and frightening, stretched the mountains of the Hindu Kush, or Hindu Killers, a name derived from the fact that in ancient times slaves brought from India perished here like flies from exposure and cold.
Knox, Barbara (2004). Afghanistan (अंग्रेज़ी भाषा में). Capstone. ISBN 978-0-7368-2448-4. Hindu Kush means "killer of Hindus." Many people have died trying to cross these mountains.
Francis Joseph Steingass (1992). A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary. Asian Educational Services. pp. 1030–1031 (kush means "killer, kills, slays, murders, oppresses"), p. 455 (khirs–kush means "bear killer"), p. 734 (shutur–kush means "camel butcher"), p. 1213 (mardum–kush means "man slaughter"). ISBN 978-81-206-0670-8.

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World and Its Peoples Archived 2014-09-11 at the वेबैक मशीन, Marshall Cavendish, Marshall Cavendish, 2006, ISBN 978-0-7614-7571-2, ... In Pakistan, a separate range — the Hindu Raj — runs south of, and parallel to, the Hindu Kush. A series of high passes penetrates the Hindu Kush, which is less of a barrier to the movement of peoples than its great height might suggest ...