From conqueror to connoisseur
Kalhaṇa’s account of Jayāpīḍa and the fashioning of Kashmir as a Kingdom of learning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8961572 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yigal Bronner (0000-0002-6492-3280, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 161-177 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Indian Economic & Social History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-4646 • E-ISSN: 0973-0893 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0019464613487098 |
| OpenAlex | W2038820116 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article is primarily concerned with asking how we can read Kalhaṇa’s Rājataraṅgiṇī as historians, other than by mining it for facts and names or using it as a proof of some South Asian given. I conduct my investigation on a relatively small sample, a well-defined narrative sequence of about 100 verses from the fourth chapter, or ‘wave’, of the River of Kings (4.402–502), which narrates King Jayāpīḍa’s first military campaign. I try to demonstrate that this section depicts a dramatic shift in Kashmir’s investment in learning and the arts. Thus I argue that the Rājataraṅgiṇī, despite its unifying poetic and moralistic framework, is acutely attuned to changes in Kashmir’s history, including this region’s special cultural and intellectual history, a topic that is clearly dear to Kalhaṇa’s heart
Art · Kingdom · Literature · Narrative · Poetry · Political science · The arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Classics · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Law · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2022 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |