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    Rājataraṅgiṇī (Sanskrit: राजतरङ्गिणी, romanized: rājataraṅgiṇī, IPA: [ɾɑː.d͡ʑɐ.t̪ɐˈɾɐŋ.ɡi.ɳiː], "The River of Kings") is a metrical legendary and historical...
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    Kalhana, the 12th century CE historian who wrote the Rajatarangini. According to the Rajatarangini, Ashoka was the great-grandson of Shakuna from maternal...
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  • erotics but gave a lively account of contemporary Kashmiri life. The Rajatarangini, an 11th-century work by Kalhana, was aimed at sketching an outline...
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  • Kalhana (Sanskrit: कल्हण, romanized: kalhaṇa) was the author of Rajatarangini (River of Kings), an account of the history of Kashmir. He wrote the work...
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    at Parihasapura. The main source of information about Lalitaditya is Rajatarangini, a chronicle of the rulers of Kashmir, by the 12th century Kashmiri...
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  • Hinduism, of which the other is Pancha-Dravida. According to Kalhana's Rajatarangini (c. 12th century CE), the Pancha Gauda group includes the following...
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  • Kashmiri historian and Sanskrit poet. His Dvitīyā Rājataraṅginī is a continuation of Kalhana's Rājataraṅginī and brings the chronicle of the kings of Kashmir...
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    translating the Sanskrit texts Mudrarakshasa, Ṛtusaṃhāra and Kalhana's Rajatarangini into English. He was the husband of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the son-in-law...
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    described by Jonaraja in the Rajatarangini Dvitiya, while the subsequent years are described by his pupil, Srivara, in the Rajatarangini Tritiya. Shahi Khan,...
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  • Brahmins in Hinduism, of which the other is Pancha-Gauda. Kalhana, in his Rajatarangini (c. 12th century CE), classifies the following five Brahmin communities...
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    Sun Temple Lalitaditya Muktapida Rajatarangini & Kalhan Gonanda dynasty Stein, M.A. (1900). Kalhaņa's Rājatarańgiņī, A Chronicle of the Kings of Kaśmīr...
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    Kashmiri culture, as is reflected in the Nilamata Purana and Kalhana's Rajatarangini. Buddhism is generally believed to have become dominant in Kashmir in...
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    Jaluka) was, according to the 12th century Kashmiri chronicle, the Rajatarangini, a king of Kashmir, who cleared the valley of oppressing Malechas. Jaluka...
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    ancient name of Bhaderwah is Bhadravakasa as mentioned in Kalhana's Rajatarangini. For its high literacy rate it is known as Kerala of Jammu and Kashmir...
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    University Press. p. 92. Wink 2002, p. 57. Rajatarangini Pandit, Ranjit Sitaram (1935). River Of Kings (rajatarangini). pp. I168–I173. Then there ruled in this...
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    2012). Rajatarangini of Jonaraja. New Dehli: Gyan Publishing House. p. 24. ISBN 978-81-212-0037-0. Dutt, Jogesh Chunder (1 January 2012). Rajatarangini of...
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  • have turned into Duggar, eventually transforming to 'Dogra'. Kalhana's Rajatarangini makes no mention of a kingdom by any of these names, but the kingdoms...
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  • Gani Lone Abdul Gani Lone Shabnam Gani Lone Kalhana (1989). Kalhana's Rajatarangini: A Chronicle of the Kings of Kashmir: Vol 1 & 2. Motilal Banarsidass...
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    as in Rajatarangini or in the Gopalavamsavali of Nepal, the texts do not deal with brahmins in great detail. According to Kalhana's Rajatarangini (12th...
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  • dispassionate (virāga) and nobles (ārya) are not born there.) According to Rajatarangini of Kalhana, king Lalitaditya Muktapida of Kashmir leads a war expedition...
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    the earliest traces of archaeology. One of his notable work is called Rajatarangini which was completed in c. 1150 and is described as one of the first...
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  • in the Puranas and the Rajatarangini. The name of Yudhishthira I is mentioned twice in the first and third book of Rajatarangini, and Biswas assumes both...
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    6th century during the rule of the Gonanda dynasty according to the Rajatarangini, the city took on the name of an earlier capital thought to have been...
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    ruler and monarch. Most knowledge relating to her is obtained from the Rajatarangini, a work written by Kalhana in the twelfth century. Didda was a daughter...
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    notable of which is the Avantiswara and Avantiswami temples. Kalhana's Rajatarangini, written in the 11th century, was meant to outline Kashmir's past. The...
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    Kashmir flood of a larger proportion is recorded in the 12th-century book Rajatarangini. A single cloudburst in July 1935 caused the upper Jehlum river level...
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    per the 12th century text Rajatarangini written by the local Kashmiri Pandit historian Kalhana. Furthermore, Rajatarangini describes the rulers of Rajapuri...
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  • conquered Kashmir and is the "Harsha Vikramaditya" mentioned in Kalhana's Rajatarangini. Some earlier scholars believed that the Vikram Samvat corresponded...
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    new kingdom of Gurjara, under a certain Alakhana. According to the Rajatarangini, it was invaded between 883 and 902 CE by Sankaravarman of the Utpala...
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    his descent to Arjuna, the basis of their account being Jonaraja’s Rajatarangini, which Mulla Abd al-Qadir Bada’uni translated into Persian at Akbar’s...
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