Saturday, November 23, 2013
The bridle path from Kashmir to Wadwan starts from Achhabal, where the cart road from Srinagar terminates. A little above Sangas, a large prosperous village situated at a distance of about four miles from Achhabal, the road takes a shot turn round the spur and enters the Kutahar valley. At this point, a few feet to the right side of the road, are four small rounds – headed niches carved on the face of a rock. Below the road on the left side is the Dathing spring. It is held sacred to Siva, and was formerly the scene of a popular pilgrimage on the Purnima (full moon night) of Sravana.
Ram Chandra Kak (05 June 1893) – 10 February 1983) was Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir during 1945- 47. He was also a pioneering archaeologist who excavated the leading sites of antiquities in Kashmir and wrote the definite text on them.
He served at various keys positions in Maharaja Hari Singh’s administration. Beginning ass the superintendent of archaeology, he was appointed to the post of chief secretary in 1937. He was made minister of military affairs in 1941 and the chief minister in Hari Singh’s government from 1942- 1945. Kak cated as the Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir from June 1946- 11 August 1947 during the key transitional period when the British prepared for departure from India
Ram Chandra Kak, a Kashmiri Pandit was considered by Dr Vreese to be in possession of Sarada script copy of the Nilamat Puran Pandit RC Kak worked in London and produced his book Ancient monuments of Kashmir in 1933.
Book: Memories of the Archaeology of Kashmir (Antiquities of Marev – Wadwan)
Author: R. C. Kak
ISBN: 978-81-8339-152-8
Language: English
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