Takht-i-Sulaiman

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts.Many units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Takht-i-Sulaiman

Solomon's throne

A shrine (ziarat) on the mountain of the Sulaiman range, North-West Frontier Province, known as the Kaisargarh or Kasi Ghar, but usually called by Europeans the Takht-i-Sulaiman, situated in 31° 41' N. and 70° E., at an elevation of 11,295 feet above the sea-level. Tradition says that Solomon halted on a ledge some distance below the crest on the southernmost bluff of the Kaisargarh to take a last look over India, whence he was carrying off an Indian bride to Jerusalem. The shrine marks the spot. The takhit, which was attempted by members of Elphinstone's mission to Kabul in 1809, was first climbed by a European in 1883.

[T. Holdich, The Indian Borderland, chap, iv (1901).]