Glimpses of Sindh River
"P rotected by high mountains, the picturesque and fertile valley of Kashmir (Kasmira) has been a center of art, culture, and polity from considerable antiquity. Its geographical position has made it a meeting ground of many races and cultures including Iranian, Tibetan, Chinese and central Asia”. The main source for the history of Kashmir is the Rajatarangini, a Sanskrit work written by a court poet Kalhana in CE 1148-1150. Though it traces the history of Kashmir from an early period, its work is reliable for understanding the history from about 600 CE. It provides the early part of Kashmir based on myths and oral stories. There are too many copies of the Rajatarangini that exist in several languages for any interpolations to have been made in recent times. The Rajatarangini mentions unambiguously to a Christ-like seer who was crucified by a Herod – like a king, and who lived in and ruled over Kashmir, possibly in the first century CE.
