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Subsequent English translations of Kalhana's Rajatarangini include: Rajatarangini: The Saga of the Kings of Kashmir by Ranjit Sitaram Pandit (The Indian Press, Allahabad; 1935) Kings of Kashmira (1879) by Jogesh Chandra Dutt; Kalhana's Rajatarangini: a chronicle of the kings of Kaśmir by Marc Aurel Stein; In the Guise of Poetry — Kalhaṇa ...
The Rajatarangini, an 11th-century work by Kalhana, was aimed at sketching an outline of Kashmir's history since ancient times, and it did discuss the Karkota dynasty in depth. [13] [14] [a] Kalhana depended on a variety of material including earlier historical works, dynastic genealogies, inscriptions, coins and Puranas. [16]
Kalhana (Sanskrit: कल्हण, romanized: kalhaṇa) was the author of Rajatarangini (River of Kings), an account of the history of Kashmir. He wrote the work in Sanskrit between 1148 and 1149. [1] All information regarding his life has to be deduced from his own writing, a major scholar of which is Mark Aurel Stein.
English: Folio of a manuscript of the Rajatarangini [Rājataraṅgiṇī] by Kalhana [Kalhaṇa], written in Sharada [Śāradā, Sarada] script. Original size: 7½” x 8½” Original size: 7½” x 8½”
During the reign of Muslim kings in Kashmir, three supplements to Rajatarangini were written by Jonaraja (1411–1463 CE), Srivara, and Prajyabhatta and Suka, which end with Akbar's conquest of Kashmir in 1586 CE. [11] The text was translated into Persian by Muslim scholars such as Nizam Uddin, Farishta, and Abul Fazl. [12]
Ranjit Sitaram Pandit (1889 – 14 January 1944) was an Indian barrister, politician, author and scholar from Rajkot in the Kathiawar region of India. He is known for his role in the Indian non-cooperation movement, and for translating the Sanskrit texts Mudrarakshasa, Ṛtusaṃhāra and Kalhana's Rajatarangini into English.
According to Kalhana's account, this Ashoka was the 48th king of the Gonandiya dynasty (Rajatarangini I102). [3] By Kalhana's calculations, he would have ruled in the 2nd millennium BCE. Kalhana's chronology is widely seen as defective, as he places kings such as Kanishka and Mihirakula respectively 1100 years and 1200 years before their actual ...
Aryaraja was a king of Kashmir who features in Rajatarangini (The River of Kings), a legendary and historical chronicle of the north-western Indian subcontinent, particularly the kings of Kashmir. It was written in Sanskrit by Kashmiri historian Kalhana in the 12th century CE. [1]