Kalhana completes the Rajatarangini

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1. c. 1147–1148Kashmir · KashmirKalhana came from an official family in Kashmir. During the reign of King Jayasimha of the Lohara dynasty, he composed a history of the kings in Sanskrit verse, drawing on inscriptions, monastery property documents, older chronicles, and oral tradition. He must be distinguished from Jayasimha Siddharaja of Gujarat; the two are not the same person.
2. c. 1148–1149Kashmir · KashmirThe book was completed in eight books, running from legendary times to the author's own day. Modern critical editions and translations by Stein and others brought the work into international Indology. As a rare Sanskrit regional chronicle, it is both a literary text and the principal narrative source for Kashmir's political history.