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22, History of Kasmir. 
By Panpir Ananp Koon. 
A BRIEF accouNT oF Hasan, THE HISTORIAN OF KASMiR. 
Moulvi Hasan Sah was born at a village ae vimgmie 
a mile to the south east of Bandipur in KaSmir, in A.H. 
(1832 a.D.) and died at the same village in 1316 4.u. (1898 A.D.) 
at the age of 66 years. He came of a family of Pirs or 
Muhammadan priests, distinguished in Persian and Arabic learn- 
other teachers which he practised until the closing years of his 
age. 
In 1875-78 a.p. occurred a terrible famine in Kasmir whose 
ravages assumed appalling proportions. Hasan wrote out a 
pamphlet in Persian verse in which he described the true char- 
acter of the calamity and made certain sensible suggestions for 
the improvement of the situation. He sent this pamphlet to 
Diwén Anant Ram, the then Prime Ministe r, to be Shes 
to His Highness the late Maharaja Ranbir Singh who was at 
that time at Jammu. The Mahdrdja conferred a Khilat of 
sind upon Hasan as a mark of recognition of “his literary 
meri 
Alter this, Hasan wrote three books in Persian and Kaé- 
miri mixed, which are greatly admired by the public. Their 
names are —Gulistdn-i-’ Ikhlaq, Kharita Asrar, and ’ Ajdz-t-Gari- 
He once went to R4walpindi and there came to know that, 
there was a Persian History of Kasmir written by Mula Ahmad 
possession of a man named Mulah Muhmid. This History is a 
very rare book. It is said to be the translation of an ancient 
book called Ratndkar Purana containing the accounts of thirty- 
five kings who ruled in Kasmir five thousand years ago, and also 
of seven kings who ruled in Kaémir from the end of second to the 
beginning of sixth century of Christian era, which accounts 
were lost to history. Ratnakar Pur4na had been discovered in 
