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Nilamata Purana
The Nilamata (Teachings of Nila’), is the oldest written record which deals with the holy legends regarding the origin of Kashmir and its sacred places and moreover, one of the main sources of information used by Kalhana when writing his Raja Tarangini.
नीलमत पुराण
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Nil-Mat-Puran-The-Story-of-Hindu Kashmir
Ved Kumari: “If the Rajatarangini is important from the point of view of the political history of ‘Kasmira’, the Nilamata is no less important for the cultural history of that part of the country.”
Title: Nilamata Purana
Editor: Ram Lal Kanji Lal, M.A., Vedanta-tirtha, Vidyaratna and Pandit Jagad-dhara Zadoo
Published by: Moti Lal Banarsidass.
Printed at: The Punjab Sanskrit Book Depot, Lahore.
Year of Publishing: 1924.
Reference:
1-As per the Rajatarangini (The River of Kings) of Kalhana and Nilamatpurana, believed to be
composed by Candra Deva.
2-P.N.K Bamzai, Culture and Political History of Kashmir: Ancient Kashmir, vol. 1 (M.D. Publications
Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi 1994) 16.
3-P.N.K Bamzai, Culture and Political History of Kashmir: Ancient Kashmir, vol. 1 (M.D. Publications
Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi 1994) 16.
4-A.R. Nazki, ‘In Search of Roots’ in S.S. Toshkhani & K. Warikwoo (eds.), Cultural Heritage of
Kashmiri Pandits (Pentagon Press 2009) 145.
