Editing Helmand River (section)

==History==
The Helmand valley region is mentioned by name in the [[Avesta]] (''Fargard'' 1:13) as the [[Ariana|Aryan]] land of ''Haetumant'', one of the early centres of the [[Zoroastrian]] faith in [[pre-Islamic Afghan history|areas that are now Afghanistan]]. However, by the late first millennium BC and early first millennium AD, the preponderance of communities of Hindus and [[Buddhists]] in the Helmand and [[Kabul River|Kabul]] valleys led to [[Parthian Empire|Parthians]] referring to it as India.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://parthia.com/doc/parthian_stations.htm|title = Parthian Stations}}</ref><ref>[http://www.avesta.org/vendidad/vd1sbe.htm Vendidad 1, at Avesta.org]</ref><ref>Beyond is Arachosia, 36 schoeni. And the Parthians call this White India; there are the city of Biyt and the city of Pharsana and the city of Chorochoad and the city of Demetrias; then Alexandropolis, the metropolis of Arachosia; it is Greek, and by it flows the river Arachotus. As far as this place the land is under the rule of the Parthians.</ref><ref>Avesta, translated by James Darmesteter (From [[Sacred Books of the East]], American Edition, 1898)</ref> From 1758 to 1842, the Helmand formed the northern borders of the [[Brahui people|Brahui]] [[Khanate of Kalat]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dashti |first=Naseer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xIjyLNpusbAC&pg=PA190 |title=The Baloch and Balochistan: A Historical Account from the Beginning to the Fall of the Baloch State |date=2012 |publisher=Trafford|isbn=978-1-4669-5896-8 |language=en|page=190|quote=}}</ref>