Kalhana
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Kalhana (c. 12th century) was the author of Rajatarangini (River of Kings), an account of the history of Kashmir. He wrote the work in Sanskrit between 1148 and 1149. All information regarding his life has to be deduced from his own writing, a major scholar of which is Mark Aurel Stein. Robin Donkin has argued that with the exception of Kalhana, "there are no [native Indian] literary works with a developed sense of chronology, or indeed much sense of place, before the thirteenth century".
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Vinony's link graph records 125 inbound references to Kalhana, and connects out to history of Kashmir, Pandya dynasty and Middle kingdoms of India.
It is catalogued under topics including 12th-century Indian historians, 12th-century Indian non-fiction writers and Historians of India.
Vinony links it to 24 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Lohara Dynasty
- Place of birth
- Parihaspore
- Occupation
- historian
- Languages spoken
- Sanskrit
- Notable work
- Rajatarangini
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- 1200-00-00
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- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- writing language
- Sanskrit
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Kalhana (c. 12th century) was the author of Rajatarangini (River of Kings), an account of the history of Kashmir. He wrote the work in Sanskrit between 1148 and 1149. All information regarding his life has to be deduced from his own writing, a major scholar of which is Mark Aurel Stein. Robin Donkin has argued that with the exception of Kalhana, "there are no [native Indian] literary works with a developed sense of chronology, or indeed much sense of place, before the thirteenth century".
==Life==
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