KINGDOM OF KASHMIR BY M.L KAPUR
Kashmir is an ancient principality. In the Puranas, it is mentioned
by the name of Gerek, which means a hill. The Mahabharta and the Budhist
literature refer to it as Kasmira, while the Mulasarvastivada Vinnaya calls it
Kasmira – Mandala. For the Greeks (Ptolemy), it was kasperiria. Some scholars
believe Herodoo – Yeng and Sun – Yan (6th century A.D). Hieun –
Tsang (7th century A.D) calls it Kia-shih-mi-lo.Khachal and kashrat
are the names given to it by the Tibetans and the Dards respectively.The ancient Kashmiris themselves called their country as
Kashmira which later shortened to Kashmir.
Dr. M.L Kapur was born at Jammu on October 17, 1929. After
graduating from the local Price of Wales College, he obtained his M.A Degrees
in Economics and History from the Punjab University.
He started his career in the Education Department of the
Education Department of the Jammu and Kashmir Government Colleges at Sopur,
Kathua and Udhampur. In 1965 he joined the Post- Graduate Department of the
University of Jammu, and has been working there since. He got his Ph.D, degree
also from this University.
Book: Kingdom of Kashmir
Author: M.L Kapur
ISBN: 81-8339-021-8
Number of Pages: 598
Language: English
Author: M.L Kapur
ISBN: 81-8339-021-8
Number of Pages: 598
Language: English
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KASHMIR – ITS CULTURAL HERITAGE BY KAUMUDI
Kashmir has been for
centuries the fountainhead of art and culture in the East. At the cross – roads
of the ancient caravan routes in Central Asia, Kashmir has been the meeting
point of various cultures. In her spacious valleys, she has harmoniously blended
their myriad trend to produce a civilization distinctive of her people and her
heritage. But Kashmir is more than a civilization. She is an answer to man’s
eternal craving for scenic beauty.
It was my great good fortune to have spent several summers
in the early years of my life in this picturesque Valley, when I had ample
opportunities of trekking far and wide into the interior. This developed in me
a deep love and admiration for the lovelier and the happier side of life there.
These memories of the early impressionable days were later strengthened by a
somewhat detailed and systematic study of Kashmir in all its various phases.
This book is an outcome of my admiration and study.
The book aims at presenting the lay- reader with a vivid
story of Kashmir’s “achievements” in the spheres of art, learning and
literature. From Kashmir’s arts, her handicrafts, her traditional lore, her
music, her customs and her ideas, I have attempted to seek the pattern of her
artistic and cultural heritage.
At a time when the question of accession of Kashmir to one
of the neighbouring countries has assumed an international significance, this
cultural aspect of the Kashmir story should not be allowed to go by default.
This little book is an attempt to fill in the gap. If, therefore, by a perusal
of this book, the reader is able to appreciate and grasp the brighter side of
life in this beautiful valley, I shall feel my labour to have been fully
rewarded.
Book: Kashmir – Its Cultural Heritage
Author: Kaumudi
ISBN: 81-86714-99-5
Number of Pages: 270
Language: English
Author: Kaumudi
ISBN: 81-86714-99-5
Number of Pages: 270
Language: English
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THE ISLAMIZATION OF KASHMIR (A STUDY OF MUSLIM MISSIONARIES) BY DR. ALTAF HUSSAIN YATOO
This book is a humble
effort on his part to present the endeavor of the Muslim missionaries in the
process of The Islamization of Kshmir. Although the main architect of the
edifice of Islam in Kashmir has been Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani, but the people
who poured into the valley prior to him were the trend-setters for hiss
missionary work and the ones who followed him furthered and brought to
culmination the work undertaken by this Great Sayyid. As such, the book
highlights the pivotal role of the Sayyid in the thorough transformation of
Kashmir into an Islamic land because he not only enriched the results of his
forerunners but also paved the way for his successors. Thus the book is a
humble realization of the qard (indebtedness) and fard (obligation) which every
Kashmiri Muslim owes to the Sayyid according to Prof. Samsuddin Ahmad, the
great biographer of the Sayyid.
Altaf Hussain Yatoo,
hailing from Goshbugh, Pattan, Baramulla, North Kashmir, is a Science graduate
(from Govt. Degree College, Sopore) with Masters (from University of Kashmir),
NET and PhD (from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi) in Islamic Studies besides
having PG (from IGNOU) in English.
Book: The Islamization of
Kashmir
Author: Dr Altaf Hussain Yatoo
ISBN: 978-81-8339-146-7
Author: Dr Altaf Hussain Yatoo
ISBN: 978-81-8339-146-7
Language: English
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HATIM’S TALES – KASHMIRI STORIES AND SONGS BY AUREL STEIN - INTRODUCTION: SHAFI SHAUQ
Kashmir, like any other
Indian cultural region of India, has its rich tradition of folklore. Hatim’s
Tales are a class by themselves in this rich heritage.
A spell-binding story
teller. Hatim was a legend in his lifetime. He recited, intoned, sang and
talked to his fond listeners in the towns and villages of the picturesque
Kashmir Valley. His tales were drawn from history, mythology, traditional
narratives and original stories devised by Hatim himself. They were part of the
oral tradition which survived in memory and word of the mouth.
Sir Aurel Stein took
pains to listen to the legendary Hatim and take down notes. When elaborated and
translated for a book, it became a unique collection of folk tales, ballads,
folk songs taken straight from the mouth of hereditary storyteller and recite.
The book contains the
original in Kashmiri, translation in English, linguistic analysis, vocabulary
and index. The modern reader will find in the collection the most authentic
account of the Kashmiri folklore ever recorded. It is sheer pleasure to read them
and enjoy their down to earth wit and wisdom.
Sir Mark Aurel Stein was
born on November 26, in 1862 in Budapest, (Hungary). After his graduation, Mark
Aurel Stein felt interested in the archaeological studies of Iran and India
when his teacher G. Buhlar, himself a great orientalist, kindled in him an
irresistible passion for the rich classical learning of India. After getting
his doctoral degree in 1884, he went to the Oxford University where he
continued his studies in the field. In 1885 he was appointed as the Registrar
of the Punjab University and the Principal of the Oriental College Lahore. In
1888 he visited Kashmir to get an entire and the oldest manuscript of the
Rajatarangani.
During his Central Asian
tours he made an in depth study of the archaeology of Khotan and published his
studies under the title Ancient Khotan.
Stein’s interest in
language and the folklore of Kashmir during the years 1888-98 when he was
preparing a critical edition of Kalhan’s Rajatarangani, with its commented
translation. After several accomplishments, the great expeditions in the
Central Asia and China, Sir Aurel Stein died on 26 October 1943 at Kabul at the
age of eight-one.
Stein’s Hatim’s Tales,
edited by Geroge Abraham Grierson, is a monumental work in the field of folklore.
Besides being a record of the original text of some of the most fascinating
folk tales of Kashmir, it is an indispensable work for the students of history,
anthropology and poetics.
Book: Hatim’s Tales –
Kashmiri Stories and Songs
Author: Aurel Stein
ISBN: 81-86714-86-3
Language: English
Author: Aurel Stein
ISBN: 81-86714-86-3
Language: English
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THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF KASMIRA SAIVISM BY MOTI LAL PANDIT - A STUDY OF TRIKA THOUGHT AND PRACTICE
The philosophical
thought of Trika Saivism of Kashmir adumbrates a new dawn in the religious as
well as philosophical history of India. It is so rich in its metaphysical
thought as to be universal on account of it being open- minded and synthetic.
It recognizes the validity of philosophical thought of every school to the
extent that the truth is apprehended and recognized. It is because of this
synthetic approach that Trika Saivism has successfully wedded realism with
idealism. It is idealistic to the extent that it maintains that the world is
nothing but the emanation of consciousness. It is realistic to the measure that
it concludes that the emanation of the objective world is real. It rejects the
Vedantic view of the Absolute as being mere light of consciousness. Instead, it
speaks of the Absolute as being both the light of consciousness as well as
cognitive self- awareness. It is on the basis of this philosophical thought
that Trika thinkers have equated the Absolute with absolute Freedom. Thus, the
Absolute of Trika is not an inactive or impersonal principle, but it is an
absolutism that has theistic orientation characterized by Freedom. Above all,
it gave birth to a new school of philosophy, namely, the Pratyabhijna
School.
Moti Lal Pandit, trained
as a theologian and linguist, has been engaged in Indological research for the
last thirty years. He has published articles as well as books on a vast range
of subjects. Initially, he began his research in Vedic religion and philosophy.
Gradually, he shifted his attention towards Buddhism and as a result of this
shift; he has been successful in publishing a number of books on Buddhism
philosophy and history. For the last several years however he is fully engaged
in the study of Trika Saivism of Kashmir. Some of his publications: Vedic
Hinduism, The Essentials of Buddhist Thought, Sankara’s concept of Reality,
Buddhism in Perspective, Being as Becoming, Towards Transcendence, The Buddhist
theory of knowledge and Reality, from Dualism to Non Dualism.
Book: The Philosophical and
Practical Aspects of Kasmira Saivism
Author: Moti Lal Pandit
ISBN: 978-81-215-1232-9
Number of Pages: VII + 258
Language: English
Author: Moti Lal Pandit
ISBN: 978-81-215-1232-9
Number of Pages: VII + 258
Language: English
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MYSTICISM IN SHAIVISM AND CHRISTIANITY EDITED BY BETTINA BAUMER
If mysticism is hard to
define, what is it then? Or, why have mystics often spoken about what they have
realized – notwithstanding the ‘unspeakability’ of a spiritual experience? And,
yet more significantly, how can a meeting point of different religious
traditions be discovered at the mystical level? Focusing on these and other
related questions, eminent scholars from varying religious traditions here
explore the nature of mystical experience in two of the world’s major traditions:
Hinduism and Christianity.
Neither a comparative
study of religious traditions, nor an attempt to develop overall mystical
theology, the book sets out spiritual dialogue Saiva and Christian mysticism: a
dialogue wherein the participants articulate world-views of the mystical
traditions of Saiva Siddhanta, Kashmir Saivism, Meister Eckhart, Hadewijch,
Julian of Norwich, St. Ignatius Loyola and of the Eastern Christianity. And,
without taking any a priori intellectual position, each author here evolves
his/her own tradition- specific perspective on mysticism – letting the
comparison, if any, to surface in the dialogue itself.
A spiritual dialogue,
like the ones this work embodies, holds a key to an insightful understanding
between different people, cultures and faiths – more specially in today’s world
rive, as it is, by fundamentalist forces and endless religious conflicts.
The book will be
valuable acquisition for scholars and spiritual interested readers alike.
Bettina Baumer, Austrian
by birth, is a widely known Indologist, author and scholar, with a versatility
of research concerns: ranging from Kashmir Saivism to Oriya religious
traditions, from Siplasastras to Indian temple architecture. Settled at
Varanasi, India, since 1967, she was Research Director of the Alice Boner
Foundation (Varanasi) and Visiting Professor of Religious Studies at Vienna
University. And as President since 1988, of the Abhishiktananda Society, she
has been engaged in interreligious dialogue with focused interest in
comparative mysticism.
Besides her German
translations of Yoga- sutra, Upanisads and Abhinavagupta, Dr Baumer has also
edited and authored a number of books which notably include Volumes 1-3 of
Kalatattvakosa, Rupa Pratirupa, Vastusutra Upanisad, Void and Fullness in the Buddhist,
Hindu and Christian Traditions and Silparatnakosa.
Book: Mysticism in Shaivism
and Christianity
Author: Edited by Bettina Baumer
ISBN: 812460096-1
Number of Pages: IX + 363
Language: English
Author: Edited by Bettina Baumer
ISBN: 812460096-1
Number of Pages: IX + 363
Language: English
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THE NILAMATA PURANA BY DR. VED KUMARI
The Nilamata Purana constitutes an encyclopedia of knowledge
about Kashmir. It contains summaries of information as gathered from this text,
on history, geography, politics, society, religion, philosophy, education,
Iconography, art and architecture. The present volume comprises the source, in
the original form, of what has been stated in the first.
This Volume contains the text of the Nilamata Purana in
Devanagari script and its English translation for the first time. The text is
based on a number of manuscripts critically edited. Besides, it has a verse-
index and the author’s own bibliography.
This source-book is essential to all students of history and
antiquities of Kashmir.
Dr. Ved Kumari (M.A - Sanskrit, Ancient Indian history &
Culture) Ph.d (Varanasi)
Formerly Head of the Department of Sanskrit, Dean of Faculty of
Oriental Learning, Jammu University, Jammu
Book: The Nilamata Purana
Author: Dr. Ved Kumari
Language: English
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SIVA SUTRAS – THE SUPREME AWAKENING BY SWAMI LAKSMANJOO
This book, Siva Sutras: The Supreme Awakening is revealed by
the twentieth century’s great philosopher saint Swami Lakshmanjoo. This spiritual
treasure, gifted by God to the sage Vasugupta for the upliftment of humankind,
is considered to be one of Kashmir Shaivism’s most important scriptures. Here,
Swami Lakshmanjoo gives the reader a penetrating vision of the glorious journey
of the Supreme Awakening; the traveling from limited individuality to absolute oneness
with God. This secret teaching, contained with these pages, is revealed by
Swami Lakshmanjoo for the first time. Drawing on his own experience Swami
Lakshmanjoo, basing his rendering on the esoteric commentary of Abhinavagupta’s
chief disciple Kshemaraja, shows us the way home.
Swami Lakshmanjoo was born in Srinagar, Kashmir on May 09,
1907. He was the last and the greatest of the saints and masters of the
traditions of Kashmir Shaivism. Having a deep understanding of the philosophy
and practices of Kashmir Shaivism, he was like a splendid and rare jewel. Beginning
from childhood he spent his whole life studying and practicing the teachings of
this unique sacred tradition. Because of his intellectual power and strength of
awareness, he realized both spiritually and intellectually the reality of its
thought.
Book: Siva Sutras – The Supreme Awakening
Author: Swami Laksmanjoo
ISBN: 81-215-1184-4
Number of Pages: XXV + 311
Language: English
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MY KASHMIR DIARY BY S.L. PANDIT
My Kashmir Diary is a collection of essays and miscellaneous
writings of Prof. S.L Pandit. It is the surviving fruit of nearly four decades
of his literary activity; the rest went up in smoke in November, 1990, with the
burning and sacking of his house at Srinagar. The author has divided the book
it four sections. Section I : ‘Down Memory Lane ‘ is mostly autobiographical
with two essays about his association with the Ramakrishna mission. Section II:
‘Kashmir Past & amp; Present’ contains twelve perceptive essays on recent
history of Kashmir, the vital question is what is Kashmiriyat, and the present
predicament of Kashmir Pandits. Section III: ‘Perceptions of a Dedicated
Teacher’ consists of some of the author’s retrieved research papers on literature and a
convocation address that he delivered at Jalandhar after his retirement. Three
reviews and two additional essays form. Section IV: ‘ Some Miscellany &
Book Reviews’. On the whole, My Kashmir Diary is a comprehensive collection
that gives the reader a fair idea of the author’s keen interest in history, literature
and society, and reveals his flair for writing and sharing his thoughts with
others.
Prof. Shyam Lal Pandit was born at Kulgam, Kashmir, in
January, 1908. After passing B.A (Hons.) in first class from Panjab University,
Lahore, he got a first class in M.A, (English) from Lucknow University in 1930.
He taught for nearly twenty five years at the various government colleges in
Jammu & Kashmir and rose to be the Principal of the Amar Singh College,
Srinagar. Later, as the first Head of the Postgraduate Department of English,
University of Jammu & Kashmir, he gave the lead to post – graduate teaching
in Kashmir. Towards the end of his distinguished career, he was, for seven
years, Principal, Panjab University Evening College, Jalandhar. Prof. Pandit
has contributed numerous critical essays on literature, history and society to
various reputed journals.
Book: My Kashmir Diary
Author: S.L. Pandit
ISBN: 81-85217-11-4
Number of Pages: 236
Language: English
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