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Princess Himal and Nagaray or Himal and Nagrai is a very popular Kashmiri folktale about the love between a human princess and a Naga (snake-like) prince. The story is well-known in the region and has many renditions. One version of the story was collected by British reverend James Hinton Knowles and published in his book Folk-Tales of Kashmir. [1]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Urdu language: Genre: Tragedy: Rustom O Sohrab or Rustam-Sohrab is an Urdu play by Agha Hashar Kashmiri. It was first ...
Sindhi folklore (Sindhi: لوڪ ادب) is composed of folk traditions which have developed in Sindh over many centuries.Sindh thus possesses a wealth of folklore, including such well-known components as the traditional Watayo Faqir tales, the legend of Moriro, the epic tale of Dodo Chanesar and material relating to the hero Marui, imbuing it with its own distinctive local colour or flavour in ...
Kashmiri has split ergativity and the unusual verb-second word order. Although Kashmiri was traditionally written in the Sharda script, [16] [17] [18] it is not in common use today, except for religious ceremonies of the Kashmiri Pandits. [19] Today it is written in Perso-Arabic and Devanagari scripts (with some modifications). [20]
In this work, readers will find the inclusion of the original Arabic text of Sahih al-Bukhārī, coupled with a literal Urdu translation thoughtfully designed to make the contents more accessible to a diverse readership. The compiler's methodology transcends the confines of Anwar Shah Kashmiri's guidance and insights.
A Dictionary Of Kashmiri Proverbs And Sayings (1888); Folk-Tales Of Kashmir (1893); James Hinton Knowles (1856–1943 [ citation needed ] ) was a British missionary to Kashmir in 19th century. [ 1 ] He had visited Kashmir in the 1880s and authored two important books about Kashmiri language and culture.
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.
Zinda Kaul was also known as MasterJi [2] by his students and friends.. Kaul was born in August 1884 in Habbakadal, a town in Srinagar into a Kashmiri Pandit family. His father, Lakshman Pandit, was indifferent to his formal education and Kaul had to face many difficulties in his life.