Fil Khana (Caves at)

Various descriptions

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A number of perhaps 100 man-made rock chambers (LINDBERG 1958: 132), of which some contain rock art (painted and engraved walls), are excavated from sandstone and conglomerate below the Pheel Khana Tope (note 1): Round the corner to the east from this cliff [housing –>Pheel Khana Bazaar Cave] is small bit of flat ground, and the rock forms a kind of crescent or amphitheatre … which is full of caves, terminating at the eastern end with the Pheel Khana [Vihara] Cave (SIMPSON 1881: 203-204). SITUATION: Above the left (northern) bank of Kabul river at –>Jalalabad, and on the western rim of the Barabad - Darunta area / Poshteh-ye Barabad va Daruntah and Pushta-i- Barabad wa Darunta (note 2). CAVE DESCRIPTION 1879: The people here have no name for these caves or niches, for that is the real character. In one or two on the left, there are openings [read: passages] leading to caves beyond; but most of them, including the largest, have no communications behind. The largest cave, or niche, ma be, at a guess, about 30 feet high [9 m], and it has a grand appearance, overlooking the Cabul river … (ARCHÆOLOGY IN AFGHANISTAN 1879: 554). CAVE DESCRIPTION 2005: Fîlhâna (Gudarra) nordwestlich von Dzhalâlâbâd; eine wichtige Gruppe buddhistischer Höhlen mit zwei Stupas auf der Anhöhe (MODE, Markus, orientarch.uni-halle.de/teach/afg_sem accessed 2005.05.21). be, at a guess, about 30 feet high [9 m], and it has a grand appearance, overlooking the Cabul river … (ARCHÆOLOGY IN AFGHANISTAN 1879: 554).