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[[File:Salt Range.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Salt Range in [[Mianwali District]], [[Punjab (Pakistan)|Punjab]], Pakistan]]
The '''Salt Range''' ({{lang-pnb|{{nq|سلسلہ کوہ نمک}}}}) is a
In the Himalayan and Salt Range, rock containing fossil of marine life go back to the Cambrian period (upto 570 million years ago), which shows these rocks have developed out of sea sediments, and that where we have the Himalayas now was once a sea.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Habib |first=Irfan |title=People's History of India - Prehistory |publisher=Tulika Books |year=2021 |isbn=9789382381525 |location=New Delhi |pages=6 |language=English}}</ref>
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==History==
An inscription found at Kura in the Salt Range records the building of a Buddhist monastery by a person named Rotta Siddhavriddhi during the reign of the [[Hephthalite|Huna]] ruler [[Toramana]]. The donor expresses the wish that the religious merit gained by his gift be shared by him with the king and his family members.<ref>{{cite book |author= Upinder Singh |date=2017 |title=Political Violence in Ancient India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dYM4DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA240 |publisher=Harvard University Press |page=240 |isbn=9780674981287}}</ref>
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{{quote|The history of this region (the Salt Range) from the thirteenth century onward had been a sickening record of wars between various landowning dominant and ruling clans of Punjabi Muslims including the Khokhars, Janjuas, Awans and Gakhars for political ascendancy.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=LRg5NSW1BisC&pg=PA142&dq=janjuhas+gakkhars Advanced History of Medieval India by S. R. (Shiri Ram) Bakshi, Anmol Publ. 1995, p142]</ref>}}
According to the Emperor Babar, the Jude and the
Also this area is known as the first ever Muslim Rajputs Kingdom and Raja Mal Dev Khan Janjua was the founder of This Kingdom. He was from Chandravanshi Rajputs clan and he was from the bloodline of famous Indian Mahabharata Warrior Prince Arjun Dev Pandav.
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==See also==
* [[List of mountains in Pakistan]]▼
* [[Himalayan salt]]
* [[Khewra Salt Mine]]
▲* [[List of mountains in Pakistan]]
==References==
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