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Literature of Kashmir has a long history, the oldest texts having been composed in the Sanskrit language. Early names include Patanjali, the author of the Mahābhāṣya commentary on Pāṇini's grammar, suggested by some to have been the same to write the Hindu treatise known as the Yogasutra, and Dridhbala, who revised the Charaka Samhita of Ayurveda.
Abdul Wahab Khar (c. 1842 – c. 1912 [1]), also appears as Wahab Khar, was the 19th-century Kashmiri Sufi mystic poet [2] [3] and saint. He is sometimes referred to as "scholar" for his contribution to the literature of Kashmir. [4]
In 1972, a bilingual film named Shayar-e-Kashmir Mahjoor was released with the Hindi version starring Balraj Sahni. A square in Srinagar is named after him. [ 10 ] He is buried near the poet Habba Khatoon at a site near Athwajan on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway.
Ghulam Nabi Gowhar (born Ghulam Nabi Muqeem; 26 June 1934 – 19 June 2018) was a multilingual Kashmiri author, novelist, poet, columnist and a retired sessions jurist.He wrote about sixty books in Kashmiri, Urdu, and in English languages on various subjects such as politics, literature, history and on Sufism.
A written record of the vakhs was unavailable at the time, and one was prepared by transcribing an oral narration of the vakhs performed by Dharma-dasa Darwesh, a story-teller residing in Gush, Kashmir. This manuscript was translated in English by Grierson and published as Lalla-Vakyani, or The Wise Sayings of Lal Ded. [13]
The oldest compilation of marsiya literature in Kashmir in a manuscript form (biyaz) dates back to 1725, when Kashmir was under Mughal rule. Other biyaz compiled during the 18th century include those written in 1769 and 1794. [52] Of the marsiya written, more than a hundred are still recited in public mourning ceremonies across Kashmir. [5]
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.
Ānandavardhana (c. 820 – 890 CE) was a Kashmiri court poet and literary critic, honored with the title of Rajanak during King Avantivarman's reign. [1] Anandavardhana authored the Dhvanyāloka, or A Light on Suggestion (), a work articulating the philosophy of "aesthetic suggestion" (dhvani, vyañjanā).