Kaikan Shokunin
The Kingdom of Kaikan, also known as Kikan was a Jat kingdom in present-day Pakistan. It played an important role in protecting Sindh from Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent, Arab invasions. Over a period of 20 years, the Jats of Kaikan repulsed six invasions from the Umayyad Caliphate. History Kaikan was named after a mountain, was a small province in Sindh near the Bolan Pass. The forth Khalifa Ali sent Arab (second) expedition to Sindh under Harish Ibn Murrah in 660. He reached Kaikan with a Large Army, the native of Kaikan stood up to fight with them. The Jats put up tough fight against the Arabian Invaders and decisively repulsed attack the attack. Harish along with followers was killed in Battle. During the next twenty years , they made desperate efforts to destroy the Jats but failed. Muslim general Haras ibn Marra-al-Abdi volunteered to attack Sindh, and the Caliph sanctioned the expedition. After a successful raid in 662, Haras turned his attention to Kikan. Ha ...
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Hinduism
Hinduism () is an Indian religion or '' dharma'', a religious and universal order or way of life by which followers abide. As a religion, it is the world's third-largest, with over 1.2–1.35 billion followers, or 15–16% of the global population, known as Hindus. The word ''Hindu'' is an exonym, and while Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, many practitioners refer to their religion as '' Sanātana Dharma'' ( sa, सनातन धर्म, lit='the Eternal Dharma'), a modern usage, which refers to the idea that its origins lie beyond human history, as revealed in the Hindu texts. Another endonym is ''Vaidika dharma'', the dharma related to the Vedas. Hinduism is a diverse system of thought marked by a range of philosophies and shared concepts, rituals, cosmological systems, pilgrimage sites, and shared textual sources that discuss theology, metaphysics, mythology, Vedic yajna, yoga, agamic rituals, and temple building, among other to ...
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