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126:, to all of which he alludes in his own writings. However, his own writings did not employ what Stein has described as "the very redundant praise and flattery which by custom and literary tradition Indian authors feel obliged to bestow on their patrons". From this comes Stein's deduction that Kalhana was not a part of the circle surrounding Jayasimha, the ruling monarch at the time when he was writing the 95:, a Hindu deity. In common with many Hindus in Kashmir at that time, he was also sympathetic to Buddhism, and Buddhists tended to reciprocate this feeling towards Hindus. Even in relatively modern times, Buddha's birthday has been a notable event for Kashmiri Brahmins and well before Kalhana's time Buddha had been accepted by Hindus as an 357: 367: 347: 60:
between 1148 and 1149. All information regarding his life has to be deduced from his own writing, a major scholar of which is
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and his birth would have been very early in the 12th century. The introductory verses to each of the eight Books in his
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family to a Kashmiri minister, Chanpaka, who probably served king Harsha of the
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Kalhana was familiar with earlier epics such as the
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Index

Sanskrit
romanized
Rajatarangini
history of Kashmir
Sanskrit
Mark Aurel Stein
Hindu
Brahmin
Lohara dynasty
Parihaspore
Shiva
avatar
Vishnu
Bilhana
Ramayana
Mahabharata
Dynasties of Ancient Kashmir
Historiography of India
"Kalhana | Kashmir Brahman"
Kalhana's Rajatarangini: a chronicle of the kings of Kasmir, Volume 1
ISBN
978-81-208-0369-5
Kalhana's Rajatarangini: a chronicle of the kings of Kasmir, Volume 2
ISBN
978-81-208-0370-1
Donkin, Robin A.
"Beyond price: pearls and pearl-fishing: origins to the age of discoveries"
ISBN
978-0-87169-224-5
Kalhana - The Chronicler

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