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This is still the local tradition, and in the existing physical condition of the country, there is some ground for the story which has taken this form. The name of Kashyapa is by history and tradition connected with the draining of the lake, and the chief town or collection of dwellings in the valley was called Kashyapa-pura, which has been ...
Tarikh-i-Kashmir by Sayyid Ali completed in 1579; Tarikh-i-Kashmir by an anonymous writer (Aumer 287) written in 1590; Baharistan-i-shahi, also anonymous, written in the time of Jahangir; Tarikh-i-Kashmir by Hasan b. Ali Kashmiri also written in the time of Jahangir; Tarikh-i-Kashmir by Haidar Malik completed in 1620–21.
Lalleshwari, (c. 1320–1392) also commonly known as Lal Ded (Kashmiri pronunciation: [laːl dʲad]), was a Kashmiri mystic of the Kashmir Shaivism school of Hindu philosophy. [1] [2] She was the creator of the style of mystic poetry called vatsun or Vakhs, meaning "speech" (from Sanskrit vāc).
The story of Jalauka, notwithstanding the topographical details, is essentially legendary, and no independent corroboration of the Kashmir tradition has been discovered. [2] "In the Brahmi script of the Aśokan period, the name Kunala would be written thus, and the name Jalauka thus, . It is possible that after the invasion of the Bactrian ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 January 2025. Ethnolinguistic group native to the Kashmir Valley For other uses, see Kashmiri (disambiguation). This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: extremely poor writing in some places (including grammar, spelling, etc.). Please help improve ...
The culture of Kashmir encompasses the spoken language, written literature, cuisine, architecture, traditions, and history of the Kashmiri people native to the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. The culture of Kashmir was influenced by the Persian as well as Central Asian cultures after the Islamic rule of Kashmir.
Ranbir Singh followed the footsteps of Zain-ul-Abidin and Avantivarman, who were former rulers of Kashmir. He employed pandits and maulvis to translate and transliterate religious texts. Sir Aurel Stein catalogued 5,000 such works. [13] Besides religious books, books on medical sciences were also translated into Urdu, Dogri and Hindi. [14]
The Kashmiri Pandits, the only Hindus of the Kashmir valley, who had stably constituted approximately 4 to 5% of the population of the valley during Dogra rule (1846–1947), and 20% of whom had left the Kashmir valley to other parts of India in the 1950s, [68] underwent a complete exodus in the 1990s due to the Kashmir insurgency. According to ...