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From Tip of the Tongue to Manuscript - A Brief History of Vaakh's of Lal Ded -
There is nothing greater in Kashmiri literature than the Vaakhs of the 14th century's great Saint- poetess #LalDed. There is perhaps no Kashmiri who does not have a Vaak on the tip of his (1/9)
There is nothing greater in Kashmiri literature than the Vaakhs of the 14th century's great Saint- poetess #LalDed. There is perhaps no Kashmiri who does not have a Vaak on the tip of his (1/9)
tongue. The popularity of these sayings is so ubiquitous that an average Kashmiri always finds use of one or the other Vaaks during conversation to make a point with the desired emphasis. However, even as the Vaaks are popular but the story of their compilation is barely (2/9)
known to the world. Here goes the fascinating story:
Until as late as the 19th century there were no manuscripts of #LallaVaakhs but they survived on the tongues of the #Kashmiris and also had been transmitted by word of mouth from generation to generation. Reportedly, (3/9)
Until as late as the 19th century there were no manuscripts of #LallaVaakhs but they survived on the tongues of the #Kashmiris and also had been transmitted by word of mouth from generation to generation. Reportedly, (3/9)
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)
Kashmir: The Fountainhead of World’s Folk Literature
#TuJantaHeKyaHaiKashmirKeBareMai - A Thread
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Atop the Mount Kailasa Shiva narrates the stories of seven Kings of Vidayadharas to his wife Parvati. Overheard by his invisible attendant Kausambi, (1/11)
#TuJantaHeKyaHaiKashmirKeBareMai - A Thread
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Atop the Mount Kailasa Shiva narrates the stories of seven Kings of Vidayadharas to his wife Parvati. Overheard by his invisible attendant Kausambi, (1/11)
he brings the stories to humans. Kanabhuti narrates the stories in #Paisachi that #Gunadhya in service of King Satavahana converts them to writing. Comprising of 7 lakh Slokas written in blood, yet the king Satavahana despised the effort for having been written in (2/11)
Paisachi; a language he abhorred and knew not. Heartbroken and dejected Gunadhya returned to forest and read the stories to forest animals and subsequently burned the stories leaf after leaf after he read them to the animals. The animals who heard the stories later became (3/11)
