JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY, 



No. V.— 1854. 



A Sketch of the Mahomedan History of Cashmere. — JBy Lieut. 

 J). J. T. Newall, of the Bengal Artillery. 



The native authorities consulted in drawing up the following brief 

 sketch of Cashmere History are as follows : 



1. The Raja Tarangini (Persian translation of Kalhana pundit 

 carried on to the present day by later hands). 



2. The History of Mahomed Azim. 



3. The Ayeen Akbarrie of Abul Fazl. 



4. The History by Narrain Khol. 



5. Ditto by Hyder Malik Chadwanee and several other less well 

 known authorities. 



It had been my intention to have commenced the following sketch 

 with the fabulous desiccation of the valley by Kashyapa, anterior 

 to historical times, as related in the earliest existing chronicle — 

 the Raja Taringini, but as that work has been translated and is 

 accessible to those who take an interest in the subject, I have taken 

 up the history from the point where that ancient record ceases, a 

 continuation of which in the Persian language has, as above remarked, 

 been brought down to the present day. 



It must be remarked, however, that according to one Mahomedan 

 author (I will not say authority) the records of the valley extend 

 to a date long anterior to the fabulous Hindu tradition of its desic- 

 cation by the Muni Kashypa, an event which, from coincidence in 

 the chronology, seems to point to the Mosaic deluge. The author 



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