"In 643 AD the Sun worshiping, Zunbils attempted to defeat Islamized Persia assembling a large army. But the Persians defeated them badly. A decade had passed. 653-4 AD, an Arab general along with his 6,000 Arab Muslim troops penetrated the Zunbil territory and broke into the shrine of Zun (Sun God) in Zamindawar. It was located about three miles south of Musa Qala in today’s northern part of Helmand Province of Afghanistan. The General of the Arab army mutilated the idol and plucked out the rubies which were its eyes, to persuade the Marzbān of Sīstān of the god’s worthlessness.†"
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Zunbils
Zunbil, also written as Zhunbil, or Rutbils of Zabulistan, was a royal dynasty south of the Hindu Kush in present southern Afghanistan region. They ruled from circa 680 AD until the Saffarid conquest in 870 AD. The Zunbil dynasty was founded by Rutbil (Turkic: Iltäbär), the elder brother of the Turk Shahi ruler (either Barha Tegin or Tegin Shah), who ruled over the Hephthalite kingdom from his capital in Kabul.
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