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infonnHOR and was also taught the Kasmiri language by him. 
In page 454 of his Valley of Ets fabliad Sir Walter thus expresses 
his gratefulness to the man 
** What else (Kaémiri hbziat I have learnt, I owe 
Pir Hasan Sah, a lear ned KaSmiri, whose work has settle 
been sie 8 the villagers.’’ 
in KaSmir asking Hasan to come to Simla to be presented to 
His Excellency, but the pies came too late, as Hasan had 
died just a few days befor 
asan had only one son, named Gul4m Muhammad Ali, 
who died in 1311 a.n. (1893 a A.D.) in his 35th year of age, leav- 
Sa’id, behind. These are now at their native village engaged in 
their hereditary occupation of priesthood of a large number of 
uhammadans, and are also doing agriculture. 
In Part II, Chapter I of my paper on the History of 
Kasmir published in this Journal for April 1910, I stated that 
Kalhana had written in his Rajatarangini that the reign of king 
Randditya extended over 300 years. Itis needless to remark 
that attributing such a longevity to a human being is simply 
extravagant. It was evidently intended to cover a great break 
of which no record of the succession of kings was forthcoming 
in the time of Kalhana. Even an orthodox Hindu will shake 
his head on hearing it, remembering that in this Kaliyuga age 
the span of man’s life is only 120 years, beyond which even 
the incarnation of Visnu, i.e. Krisna, could not live. 
Hasan, the author of the Persian History of Kasmir, how- 
ever, says that Ranaditya reigned for only 60 years and 3 
months, which of course seems probable, and seven kings 
ruled, six preceding and one following him, whose accounts 
have been omitted in the Rajatarangint. According to this 
author this period extended over not 300 years but 329 years 
and 5 months. He has given the names as well as the accounts 
of the rule of these seven kings, one of whom is Vain inya- 
ditya, who, though not mentioned in the Rajatarangini, is 
well remembered even to the present day by every household 
in Kas to have been an extremely good an _— 
ruler. ‘His. name has descended down from generation 
generation and his fame in ae. has equalled, if not ae 
that of Vikramaditya of There occurs in the Raja- 
tarangini (Book V. 97-100) a Saipk by the name of Vainy4a- 
svamin about whose founder no mention is made therein any- 
where, but it proves that there was a king of the name of 
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