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India's oldest written history Rajatarangini - The Ancient Political History of Kashmir.
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#Rajatarangini was authored by a Kashmiri Brahmin named Pandit Kalhana. Written in the 12th century, (1/11)
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#Rajatarangini was authored by a Kashmiri Brahmin named Pandit Kalhana. Written in the 12th century, (1/11)
its original manuscript called Codex Archetypus was a heirloom of single family for 9 generations. The seventh descendant was the famed #Saivite Sivopdhyaya. (2/11)
Written on paper in #sarada script in the hand of the far famed scholar and copyist Rattanakantha Popularly called Ratha Razdan for his fast writing and cursive handwriting difficult to read, (3/11)
Kashmiri Pandits owe it to Sir Marc Aurel Stein.
The caption sounds a bit unrealistic but nothing is more truer. The #KPs had produced in the past an enormous amount of literature written in Sanskrit but all that lay secretively (1/14) A Thread
The caption sounds a bit unrealistic but nothing is more truer. The #KPs had produced in the past an enormous amount of literature written in Sanskrit but all that lay secretively (1/14) A Thread
in the possession of their owners who guarded them like sacred amulets.Everything lay hidden and unknown about Kashmir's Hindu era until the last quarter of the 19th century. Even the KPs themselves were ignorant of the glorious achievements of their ancestors. It was (2/14)
the fortuitous visit of the German Indologist, Georg Buhler, to Kashmir in 1875 that brought the ancient Sanskrit treasures of Kashmir before the world for the first time. At the time he collected 300 manuscripts and thus the world for the first time ever became familiar (3/14)
From today onwards, I am going to tweet about Kalhana's Rajatarangini. In case you are interested, please follow and spread the word. Rajatarangini is a Chronicle of the Kings of #Kashmir. I will keep adding the tweets in this thread and wish to accomplish this task on twitter.
KRT1: I am using a translation given by M A Stein, whose first visit to #Kashmir was in the summer of 1888. As per him, Rajatarangini is the oldest and fullest record of #Kashmir history.
KRT2: Before we start learning the history, it is important to understand the author of this great Chronicle, Kalhana. Kalhana, like many other authors, lives solely in his work. There is no record of to tell us life of scholer-poet to whom Kashmir owes the knowledge of history.
