"The good country of Kashmira is adorned by the vedas with their six angas, and the vedantas, and the well arranged siddhantas, by logic and grammar, by the puranas, by the mantras, and by the six schools of philosophy ; by the followers of Shiva and of Vishnu, by the worshippers of the sun, by the Buddhists with their paintings and viharas and mathas ; by the vine, and the saffron, the grains, and the shali rice, and by fragrant flowers; by the puranas, and the shrutis and the tarkashastras; by the Brahmana worahippers of fire, and by the Brahmanas devoted to contemplation, austerities, prayers, and anxious for ablution and worship ; by kotis of nagas, by Hari and Hara ; and by the Gandharvvas and the Vidyadharas. Here the water is cool like the amrita of heaven."
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Rajataranginī of Jonaraja, B 747, quoted in M Witzel, The Brahmins of Kashmir
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Jonaraja
1418 ā 1419
Jonaraja (died AD 1459) was a Kashmiri historian and Sanskrit poet. His DvitÄ«yÄ RÄjataraį¹ ginÄ« is a continuation of Kalhana's RÄjataraį¹ ginÄ« and brings the chronicle of the kings of Kashmir down to the time of the author's patron Zain-ul-Abidin (r. 1418ā1419 and 1420ā1470). Jonaraja, however, could not complete the history of the patron as he died in the 35th regnal year. His pupil, ÅrÄ«vara continued the history and his work, the TritÄ«yÄ RÄjataraį¹ ginÄ«, covers the period 1459ā1486.
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