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Koh e Hindu (Persian: کوه هندو‎ Mountain of the Hindu) is a mountain of the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan. It is located in near Shakardara District and Mir Bacha Kot District, Kabul Province.

For Hindus, in ancient times, for example, in pre-Islamic times, when even the name Afghanistan was not, but then the mountains of Hindus have for residents with Hindu religious denominations in the Iranian plateau (eastern) enormous importance. The Islamization of the Iranzamin or Aryana or Ariana in the east began to eleventh century. There are still some names with the religious terminology of Hinduism that the times of Hinduism, for example, Hindu Shahi dynasties in Kah pol (Persian: کاه پل‎ Haulm- Bridge for Kabul) or Kabulistan and Zabulistan are due. The Hindu have had their sanctities two thousands mountains. Especially in Kabul and Parwan existed several of terms that refer to Hindus and Hindu Kush in the Meaning of Hindu Happy. Here were and are also the most Hindu temples of the country.

Hinduism was one of the first religions of Asia like Zoroastrianism and Buddhism. Buddhism originated in India and he came from India to this region. Otherwise, the present territory was a stronghold of Indian, Iranian and Turkic cultures. Alone in the food and customs can be seen in this room Chinese, Turanian, Iranian and Indian ways of life. The River of Kabul and the other rivers of the Hindu Kush have been praised in Vedic and Avestan hymns, especially the eastern and southern watersheds of the Hindu Kush, the western sources of the Indus (Sindh).


The Hindu Kush (Pashto and Persian: هندوکش‎, lit. 'Hindu Killer, Kills the Hindu';[3] /kʊʃ, kuːʃ/), also known in Ancient Greek as the Caucasus Indicus (Ancient Greek: Καύκασος Ινδικός) or Paropamisadae (Ancient Greek: Παροπαμισάδαι), is an 800-kilometre-long (500 mi) mountain range that stretches near the Afghan-Pakistan border,[4][5] from central Afghanistan to northern Pakistan. It forms the western section of the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region (HKH). It divides the valley of the Amu Darya (the ancient Oxus) to the north from the Indus River valley to the south.

The Hindu Kush range has numerous high snow-capped peaks, with the highest point in the Hindu Kush being Tirich Mir or Terichmir at 7,708 metres (25,289 ft) in the Chitral District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. To the north, near its northeastern end, the Hindu Kush buttresses the Pamir Mountains near the point where the borders of China, Pakistan and Afghanistan meet, after which it runs southwest through Pakistan and into Afghanistan near their border. The eastern end of the Hindu Kush in the north merges with the Karakoram Range. Towards its southern end, it connects with the Spin Ghar Range near the Kabul River.

The Hindu Kush range region was a historically significant centre of Buddhism with sites such as the Bamiyan Buddhas.

The range and communities settled in it hosted ancient monasteries, important trade networks, and travelers between Central Asia and South Asia. The Hindu Kush range has also been the passageway during the invasions of the Indian subcontinent, and continues to be important during modern-era warfare in Afghanistan.

According to one interpretation, the name Hindu Kush means "kills the Hindu" or "Hindu killer" and is a reminder of the days when slaves from the Indian subcontinent died in the harsh weather typical of the Afghan mountains while being taken to Central Asia.