GHAWCHAK (Ghar)

جلال اباد (AF)
34.427500,70.411400
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Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A small (1.5 m wide, 1 m high, 5 m long) but culturally important man-made burial cave (note 1), sacred to Muslims and dedicated to the (Sufi?) saint and martyr -Goutchak- (Ghawchak), is excavated from conglomerate in the Ziarat (sanctuary and pilgrimage site) Ghourombar (note 2) or, perhaps, Ghuranbar, which lies at a distance of about 5.5 km in a direct line east-south-east from Jalalabad town (N34°26': E070°28', AIMS sheet PI42-07). CAVE LIFE: LINDBERG (1958: 132) recorded and collected Chilopoda, Coleoptera (Tenebrionida), Scorpions.A small (1.5 m wide, 1 m high, 5 m long) but culturally important man-made burial cave (note 1), sacred to Muslims and dedicated to the (Sufi?) saint and martyr -Goutchak- (Ghawchak), is excavated from conglomerate in the Ziarat (sanctuary and pilgrimage site) Ghourombar (note 2) or, perhaps, Ghuranbar, which lies at a distance of about 5.5 km in a direct line east-south-east from Jalalabad town (N34°26': E070°28', AIMS sheet PI42-07). CAVE LIFE: LINDBERG (1958: 132) recorded and collected Chilopoda, Coleoptera (Tenebrionida), Scorpions.

Documents

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History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1958.01.05: Knut LINDBERG (1958: 132, 1961a: 22) visited, explored and tried to collect cave life. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

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