Manglawar

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Manglawar () is a Union council of Tehsil Babuzai of Swat District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan and former capital of Kingdom of Swat.

Variants

Location

It is located at 34°48'30.7"N 72°25'50.0"E with an average altitude of 987 meters (3,238.19 feet).

Fame of Manglawar

Manglawar is famous for many things. Some of them are:

  • Dwa Saro, the second highest mountain in Swat of approximately 10,000 feet from Sea level.[6]
  • Malka Swat, Queen of Swat , Shahida Bibi (Wife of Sultan Awais Swati ) who was also the Sister of Malak Ahmad Baba (Founder of Yusufzai in Swat) was from here, also now she is buried in Dherai Manglawar.[7]
  • Sultan Awais Swati (Sultan’was) the last emperor of Kingdom of Swat[8] was from Manglawar, the remains of the castle are still observable. He was from Swati tribe whose descendants are now living in Mansehra.
  • Sultan Pakhal Swati founded Kingdom of Swat with capital as Manglawar.
  • It is said that Mubaraka Yusufzai, the wife of Babur, was from Manglawar.
  • Fishes, Manglawar has a river where best variety of fishes having a mouth-watering taste, hunters came from far flung areas to quench their desire with the piquant taste.
  • Furniture and woodworking handicrafts work is also famous made for the locally produced wood from the jungles of Manglawar.[12]
  • Manglawar is site for the best Rabab players, and loke singer of Pashto music.

Former capital

Khan Roshan Khan Yousafzai- A famous Pashtun historian wrote about Sultan Pakhal on the page no 8 of his book Malika E Swat[13] that "At the time Yusufzai were exiled from Kabul, at that time Sultan Pakhil was the king of Swat. It is said that from Ashnagar to the top of Malakand and the whole of Swat including its territories and suburbs and the whole of Bunir was under the control of Sultan Pakhil. Sultan Pakhil himself lived in the fort of Mangalore. This fort, which was the base of the Sultanate of Swat, was very populated during the era of the Sultanate of Swat. Inside and outside there were colorful houses and strange havelis, tall palaces and primitive rivers flowing inside the fort. The bazaar was colorful and the shops were decorated. Outside the fort on the west side was the royal mausoleum which is still preserved."

History

Buddha Prakash[14] mentions that towards the end of Pushyamitra's reign the Yavana menace also seems to have assumed alarming dimensions. Hence Pushyamitra himself advanced against them and, crossing the Indus, penetrated into the region called Koshthaka, modern Birkot and Udeygram in the Manglawar area, but was killed by the fall of a rock (P. C. Bagchi, ‘Krimisha and Demetrius’, Indian Historical Quarterly, Vol, XXII (1946) pp. 81 ff.). After him his empire broke up into several fragments ruled over by warring scions of his family.

References

  1. ↑ Buddha Prakash: Evolution of Heroic Tradition in Ancient Panjab, X. The Struggle with the Yavanas, Sakas and Kushanas, p.102
  2. ↑ Janabad Seated Buddha, Courtesy SwatValley.net,
  3. ↑ Conservation: Defaced Buddha sculpture gets facelift, Tribune, Published: June 26, 2012
  4. ↑ Buddha attacked by Taliban gets facelift in Pakistan, Dawn, Published: June 25, 2012
  5. ↑ Italian Archeologist Luca Olivieri returns to Swat for the preservation of Buddhist Statues destroyed by Taliban, Pakistan-Explorer, Published: June 30, 2012.
  6. ↑ Muhammad Parvesh Shaheen, Wadi Swat(2009), P: 21, Maktab-e-Jamal
  7. ↑ Malika-e Swat, 1st Edition, 1983, Roshan Khan
  8. ↑ Bhardwaj Kritika, Malala: The Crusader of Fearless Freedom
  9. ↑ Allah Bakhs Yusufi, Yousafzai (Karachi: Mohammadan Educational Society, 1960).
  10. ↑ The Early History of India from 600 B. C. to the Muhammadan Conquest,(1957) P: 522; Lionel D. Barnett, Antiquities of India: An Account of the History and Culture of Ancient Hindustan, P: 38; Vidya Bhawan The Indian Historical Quarterly, Volume 22, (1946) P: 38; SUVASTU; A River, ValleySwat.net,
  11. ↑ Shingrai Waterfall,
  12. ↑ Swat wood carvers: Creating delicate timber masterpieces, Tribune, Published: April 10, 2011; Wood carving tradition stays alive in Swat, Dawn, Published: 18 June 2015; Buddha’s empty chair: Swat’s artisans persevere to save age-old traditions, The Express Tribune, Published: May 10, 2014
  13. ↑ "Population And Household Detail From Block To District Level: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. 2018-01-03. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-17.
  14. ↑ Buddha Prakash:Evolution of Heroic Tradition in Ancient Panjab, IX. The Contribution to the Maurya and Sunga Empires, p.96-97

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