- The
Nilamata Purana (Sanskrit: नीलमत पुराण, romanized:
nīlamata purāṇa), also
known as the
Kasmira Mahatmya, is an
ancient text (4th to 8th
century CE)...
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village still called Kankhal, near
Haridwar (Megha Dúta, p. 63 p. 59). The
Nilamata Purana Verses 1-100 Dr. Ved Kumari,
Jammu and
Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture...
- apocryphal[citation needed]
legend regarding the
origin of the
river in the
Nilamata Purana. The name
survives in the
Kashmiri name for this river,
Vyath and...
-
Kashmiri text
Nīlamata Purāṇa);
mention (in Sha****ala) of the
legend about Kashmir being created from a lake. This legend,
mentioned in
Nīlamata Purāṇa, states...
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instructed by
Kubera to
watch over the
Pisacas (a type of evil spirit). The
Nilamata Purana refers to him as "the
noble and
strong lord of the Pisacas." Seeing...
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important part of the
classical Kashmiri culture, as is
reflected in the
Nilamata Purana and Kalhana's Rajatarangini.
Buddhism is
generally believed to have...
-
historical persons. In his support,
Davidson presents the
example of the
Nilamata Purana,
which is one of Kalhana's
sources for Rajatarangini, and which...
-
Kashyapa and Krodhavasa, one of the
daughters of Pra****ati Daksha. The
Nilamata Purana of the 7th
century says the
valley of
Kashmir was
inhabited by two...
- army of
Rakshasa and Malayaketu.
According to an
ancient Kashmiri text
Nilamata Purana compiled by
Indian scholar Ved
Kumari Ghai, the
Khasa tribe occupied...
- and in some
countries it is
still spelled this way.[citation needed]
Nilamata Purana (complied c. 500–600 CE)
contains accounts of Kashmir's
early history...
