[[OT] taqdiir kaa sikandar]

[Raveen Satkurunathan]

>>>>Has Alexander's name been remembered in India/Pakistan ever
>     since his trip to Pakistan?
>
>The earliest reference to Sikandar in Hindi Literature is in the 16th
century
>Hindi poem "PadumAvat" by JAyasI [Bk. 1, verse-group 13, where JAyasI
compares
>his patron Sher Shah to "iskandar"].
>Sikandar or Al-sikandar seems to be a theme in the Perso-Arabic source of
>South Asian cultural history, rather than in the Sanskritic [Indo-Aryan]
>source.
>
>
>Jogesh Panda

How about the Nuristani Kalasha of Afghanistan's cultural memory of
Alexander as well is what about Alexander -> Skanda as postulated by some?

Regards
Raveen