RAJATARANGINI OF KALHANA: A SOURCE OF SOCIO-CULTURAL HISTORY
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https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i4.2024.3785Keywords:
Culture, Caste, Center of LearningAbstract [English]
The Rajatarangini of Kalhana is a great source of the socio-cultural history of Kashmir. No history can be completed without knowing its socio- cultural aspects. The Rajatarangini of Kalhana is not merely a ‘River of Kings’, containing dry accounts of various dynasties, rulers and their activities in court or in the field of war, but it is a veritable encyclopedia of information on the society and culture, the way of life, religious conditions, art and architecture and economic life of the period and so on. As such it becomes a significant source of information to be studies, analyzed and interpreted. Through this research paper, various social and cultural references given by Kalhana, will be explored.
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