[INDOLOGY] RAJTARANGINI

[Peter Mukunda Pasedach]

Dear Allesandro,

Muzaffar Ahmad told me that Muhammad Din Fauq, author of Complete
History of Kashmir (in Urdu), identifies the author of this chronicle
with the Ratnākara who was associated with the court of Avantivarman.

Best,

Peter

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Alessandro Battistini
<alessandro.battistini at uniroma1.it> wrote:
> Dear Peter,
>
> Thank you for the intriguing reference about the Ratnākara Purāṇa. But the
> papers on Archive seem not to associate this Pandit Ratnākara with the
> author of the Haravijaya. Is it just a mere assumption based on the title of
> the chronicle? Could you point me to any other consistent sources, if they
> exist?
> Best
>
> Alessandro Battistini
> Gonda fellow, IIAS Leiden
>
> 2016-11-17 7:49 GMT+01:00 Peter Mukunda Pasedach via INDOLOGY
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>> To: alakendu das <mailmealakendudas at rediffmail.com>
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>> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 07:49:14 +0100
>> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] RAJTARANGINI
>> Dear Alakendu Das,
>>
>> To Ratnākara, 9th century Kashmir, author of the Haravijaya, is
>> attributed a chronicle of the kings of Kashmir, possibly only
>> surviving in fragments of translations into Persian and Urdu. See the
>> following blog post of Vinayak Razdan,
>> http://www.searchkashmir.org/2014/06/hasan-shah-and-lost-kings-of.html
>> ,  and, linked from there, scans of two articles of Pandit Ananda Koul
>> in the Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal from
>> early 20th century, https://archive.org/details/HasansHistoryOfKashmir
>> . I was made aware of it by Muzaffar Ahmad,
>> https://independent.academia.edu/MuzaffarAhmad , who is working on it.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Peter Pasedach
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:54 AM, alakendu das
>> <mailmealakendudas at rediffmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > If anybody may kindly enlighten me on the existence of any medieval
>> > composition on any Historical context on India ,prior to RAJTARANGINI?
>> >
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