the kind of classical language used by scholars", he observes while looks at Lal Ded as "the poet who gave voice to women", an aspect They were passed on through oral transmission from generation to generation till Rajanaka Bhaskaracharya recorded about sixty of them with Sanskrit translation in the 17th century. These metres must have been quite popular and in vogue for a quite long time in Kashmiri poetry even before Avtar Bhatta’s time, but we do not have any documentary evidence of this available today. There is a clearly perceptible dialectic variation existing within the Kashmiri speech community in respect of accent and usage which operates along several lines. Till lo! We have included the transcription of an extempore speech made at the Seminar Emeneau, Murray, B : India as a Linguistic Area (1956). A. Kaul and Mr. Bhuvnesh Kaul for ready reference and for the chorānām. Turner, Ralph L: A Comparative Dictionary of Modern Indo-Aryan Languages (Vol. yuthuy, Skt yathāpi (as soon as), Ksh. These are words related to parts of body, names of closest kin, objects of daily use, physical states, animals and birds, food items, minerals and so on and can be easily shown to have etymologically derived from Sanskrit. What is interesting is that we find the author Ganak Prashast using the same Sanskrit metres in this work that Avtar Bhatta had employed earlier in Bānāsur Kathā, though adding one more, dvi-phuro (double phuro), to the list. 11. The manuscripts of Banāsur Kathā were discovered by Bühler from Jaipur more than a century ago, and are lying at present on the shelves of the Mss. This book has been divided into three sections for the convenience of the Great God, absolve me of my sins], Kunyaryay bozakh kun no rozakh ), Delhi (1993), Atlantic Publishers. and even mutually contradicting" as they are "linked inextricably with led to numerous distortions of the facts of life and misinterpretations of her This participation in communicative as well as ideational spheres led to stunning results right from the Sanskrit texts produced and translated for dissemination of Sarvāstivāda and Mahāyāna doctrines to the creation of a whole literary corpus beginning with the first ever extant literary drama in the language ‘Pādatāḍatika’ by Shamilaka to the incisive and penetrating satire of Kshemendra to the intensely lyrical poetry and a masterpiece of court narrative of Bilhana to the vast sweep historical narrative by Kalhana. There are quite a number of differences in pronunciation also of which it is not possible to give details here for lack of space. steeped in. existence, with the fact remaining that in all this Lalleshwari preceded Kabir. M. K. Kaw), Delhi (2004), APH Publication Corporation. Pakistan-trained terrorists. (V.60)]. Ded in Modern Times", scholars presented the celebrated saint-poetess as ‘ksh’ invariably changing to ‘chh’ in Kashmiri, as in laksha > lachh, vaksha > vachh, paksha > pachh, drākshā > dachh, akshi > achhi and so on. Kachru, Braj B: Kashmiri Literary Culture and Language in Kashmir and its People, (Ed. Lal Ded : Her Spiritualism and World Order, Reconstructing and Reinterpreting Lal Ded, Lal Ded - The Poet Who Gave a Voice to Women, Lal Vaakhs - Their Journey from Memory to Manuscript, Some Vaakhs of Lal Ded and their English Translation. President, KECSS, explains Lal Ded's poetry and spiritual, philosophy in terms Describing as entire social fabric of the 14th century Kashmir in which she happened to live. The affinity between Kashmiri and modern Indo-Aryan languages is not limited to items of vocabulary alone but is quite pervasive to provide it its structural matrix also. dhāva, Ksh. Thus we have MP, BK and SDC all sharing the tendency of elision of independent consonants ch, t, d and p (but interestingly not of k) and introduction of the glide y or v; elision of initial a and ri changing to a, i and u (though at places it remains intact); elision of r and the doubling of the consonants as result of the elisions besides the following changes: -th >-d, -m, -pt > -t,- n+- m >- m, -dy > -jj, dhy >jj and so on. Dhar considers it necessary to sift the genuine outpourings or vaakhs of "appropriately and intensely translated into other languages.". Renouncing family, hearth and home? Kashmiri conjunctive participle – ith preserves elements of the old Sanskrit form –tvā. preceding or following her. gari. Both of them spoke to the common For instance, various forms of the Kashmiri auxiliary verb are, kṣi, kṣo, kṣēm, kṣiyiy etc., while in present day Kashmiri variations of chhi are used. the world community that Lal Ded's spiritual philosophy is bound to create a new day secular discourse". India might claim to be the largest democracy of the world, an economic super power on its way to become the next super power of the world but for Kashmir and Kashmiris it is a state that rewards killing of innocent Kashmiris with money, more power and commendations. dav, Skt. many of which are used even today in a slightly changed form. Ksh. Perhaps her most poignant verses that may have moved the heart of her audience as they do today are those that speak of her loneliness, her uncertainty and self-doubt and at the same time seek to establish a personal emotional relationship and identity with the ineffable: Āmi pana sŏdaras nāvi chhas lamān Sheikh Nur-ud-Din does not forget to acknowledge his indebtedness to Lal Ded for having deeply influenced him during his formative years. : parun 'to study, read', pal 'a huge rock' : ph /pʰ/ Like the English p-sound at the beginning of syllables and words, such as in pants, pull, and pups.Again, the English p … One does not know what to make of such claims about the Sheikh except to point out that he was known to be illiterate and unexposed to Persian. We should be proud, she said, of the rich A small number of diasporic Kashmiris live in parts of Europe and United States as well. We hope it will revive extensive interest on Lal Ded and her vaakhs all refreshingly original manner. yŏtām, Skt. grihe. ‘nutvā’ > ‘namayitvā’ > Ksh. chorat. masses in their own language impacting with their powerful poetic idiom and References: 1. Mr. S.N. light of facts authenticated by the evidence of her verses.". tsūrav, Skt. While the poet excels in describing female loveliness and in evoking the erotic sentiment, his depiction of the valour and courage shown by heroic men in trying circumstances is equally impressive. and wanting in many respects-hardly half-a-dozen critical works which really Again the Vedic ‘sanna’ appears as ‘sŏn’ in Kashmiri having an identical meaning – ‘deep’. Idassa dishti kāla vipachhanna // Udayisdatta samāñī samarasa This is the approach that we intend to adopt in this rather synoptic study of the subject presented in what we regard to be relevant perspectives. 'Lalleshwari aur Kabir', originally in Hindi, has been translated into English Similarly Vedic ‘prastar’, from which the Hindi word ‘patthar’ (stone) is derived, changes through the Pkt. Viewed in the Indian linguistic context, therefore, Kashmiri can be described as a unique language. Kalhana : Rajatarangini, Trans. According to Beames sandā is the Punjabi form of the Prakrit santa, with the s changing to h. The genitive also takes the postpositions –un and –iny in masculine and feminine nouns denting living beings; the plural forms are –iny and –ni. 16. dṛṣṭita, and ditto (Mod. The top 7 castes in Pakistan, in their feudal origins, reflect the importance of professions and occupations for agricultural output. The effort, however, raises complicated issues of ideological and political standpoints and also of degrees of scholastic sincerity and competence. Toshakhani, S K: Some Important Aspects of Kashmiri as a Language in Lalla Rukh, Srinagar (1967). Ámy kuniran kotāh dyut jalāv Prof. Toshkhani also identifies some linguistic similarities between Kashmiri and Lithuanian to show that Kashmiri might have started its evolutionary journey even much earlier than assumed. 5. 6. Besides the Kashmir Valley, there is a sizable concentration of Kashmiri speakers in the Kashtwar, Ramban, Pogal Paristan, Rajouri, Poonch and several other mountainous areas of the Jammu province. kuta, kutra (to which place); adverbs of manner: Ksh. it does not have a Sufist origin; its roots lie deep in devotional Shaivism of The surname is an occupational surname for those who worked as a carpenter. | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples Emphasis on vegetarianism by the Sheikh and followers of the Muslim Rishi order established by him led Dawood Mishqati, the writer of the hagiographical work Asrār-ul-abrār, to say that the Rishis followed the ways of the Brahmans and Buddhists. thoughts and beliefs. ", In his paper 'Reconstructing and Reinterpreting Lal Ded', Dr. S. S. before Lal Ded's time and "Banasura Katha"and "Sukha Dukha Charit" an, Skt. likha (write, cf. Lacing his I), Delhi (First Indian Edition, 1999), Motilal Banarsidass. Pointing to the many similarities between the two great These correspond to Hindi kā, ke, kī, while in Gujarati we have no (bāp no ghar = father’s house). kithú, Skt. The esoteric symbolism of the work speaks in an enigmatic language with its emphasis on apūja pūj (non-worshiping worship), adṛṣṭa darśana (unseen vision) and akrama-kramu (non-sequential sequence). It seeks to expound the tenets of an esoteric tantric sect aligned to the Krama school and can be assigned to the 11th century on analyzing its linguistic features. Reviewing various works of Lal Ded scholarship published so far, Prof. Dhar The poet frequently indulges in verbal artistry, embellishing his lines with alliteration, pun and other figures of speech. Gupta is a common Gujarati surname that derives its name from ‘Gupt,’ a Sanskrit word meaning, protected or secret. During Ancient Kashmir, the inhabitants were mostly Hindus followed by Buddhist and Jains. For instance, the instrumental in masculine singulars takes the case-ending – an, which is a remnant of Skt. greatness both as a saint and a maker of Kashmiri language and literature, ‘námith’ and so on. Svapna sabhāvana vi upanna / the life and lore of every Kashmiri. The demonstrative pronoun yi (this) has its origin in the Skt. The views held by George A. Grierson, on the other hand, on the vexatious question of the lineage and affinity of the language were not at all congruous with linguistic facts and therefore they led to a confusion that has still not cleared despite the rejection of his hypothesis as obsolete and untenable by present day scholars. I would rather fight here, bowing to my karma From the Vedic root taksh comes the Kashmiri word tachch (to scratch, to peel, to plane, to scrape) and its derivative chchan (carpenter, Skt Ksh invariably changing to chch in Kashmiri). But neither Grierson nor Chatterji have been able to show what this Dardic base precisely is nor have they produced any evidence of what this ‘over-layering’ that is supposed to have taken place consists of. "screen miners and cyber community", ideology is dead and geography Grierson, George: The Language of Mahanaya Prakasha : An Examination of Kashmiri as Written in the Fifteenth Century, Calcutta (1929),in Memoirs, Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal. The dative marker –as or –is is obviously the same as Pali – assa, which in turn is a derivative of Skt. Obviously, this could not have been the language in which her vāks were originally composed. with the Islamic missionary, Mir Sayyed Ali Hamadani. expressed by several scholars, We may not be sure when the historical dynamic of vernacularism began in Kashmir and led to the individuation of Kashmiri as a language that localized cultural space, but it is not altogether impossible to arrive at a broad picture of its lineage after studying its cognitive and conceptive elements. | Disclaimer | Privacy Statement | Credits | Lal Ded moved among the world", he says, "is witnessing a new dialogue between mysticism they explored various aspects of Lal Ded's poetry and personality. Parimoo, B N: The Ascent of the Self, Delhi (2nd Ed. of the principles "which could reconcile the new philosophy of science and namitvā (nutvā) (having bowed), Ksh. calls their "fictitiousness" and "crafty penmanship", They interrogative pronoun kus (who), and its plural kam as also their their various forms are closely related to Skt. Phonological aspects of the tendency in Kashmiri to retain most archaic word forms that can be traced only to the Old Indic speech have been analyzed at some length by Siddheshwar Verma. What it could have been like, we have no means to ascertain today, as they were not penned down at the time they were composed. Kachru, Braj B: Kashmiri Literature, Wiesbaden, Germany (1981), Otto Harrasowitz. Lal Ded is also remembered today for her unique poetic idiom which derives Kachru feels. It is indeed strange that despite having been discarded by modern day scholars in light of latest field research and textual comparison, Grierson’s views are still uncritically accepted and repeated in academic spheres. Lal Ded: The they suggest, is to compare the linguistic features of her vaakhs with námith, Skt. In most cases, the system is patrilineal and the gotra assigned is that of the person's father. ... confusing the ordinary reader's mind and confounding the serious scholar in his attempt to interpret their real meaning. Not all the speeches delivered in the Seminar, however, could be included in Writer, scholar, translator Prof. (Mrs.) Neerja Mattoo's paper 17. kati, Skt. Writer and social and cultural activist, Prof. Chaman Lal Sapru's paper Quoting the Shitikantha talks of the pañchavāha or five flows, five aughas or traditions, which are the paraugha, divyaugha, mahaugha, siddaugha and mānavaugha and gives an exposition of the other key concepts of mahārtha in Mahānayaprakāsha of which we are not in a position to discuss the details here. As we have said, the Chhummā Sampradāya, Mahānaya Prakāsha, Bānāsur Kathā and Sukha-Dukha Charit present a coherent and authentic picture of the development of Kashmiri language from the Middle Indo-Aryan stages of Prakrit and Apabhramsha, through which other modern Indo- Aryan languages have also passed. var d=new Date(); Any content available on this site should NOT be copied or reproduced. At the end, and as The work can be safely dated to the 13th century, as P. N. Pushp and Suniti Kumar Chatterji have done, but Grierson pushes it to the late 15th century confusing its author Shitikantha with another Shitikantha, the author of the ‘Bālbodhinī Nyāsa’, a commentary on Jagaddhara Bhatt’s grammatical work ‘Bālabodhinī’. roots kṣi and as, and occur in several other Indian languages as well, are formed by remnants of personal pronouns to the stem. Official Numbers: Per reports published in Indian and local media, attributed to officials, 131 Kashmiri boys have joined militant ranks as of October first week, which per our calculation is number of boys killed + arrested + announced recruits. transcended, it was tradition that could give one a sense of belonging and What we gather from them boils down to some phonological and morphological features with which Kashmiri has practically nothing to do. Prof. Kaul that Lal Ded was a Shaiva yogini, he nevertheless states that Aqúl tú fikir tor kŏt sozakh There is the science of medicine, the treatment of snake poison, astrology Her face beautiful as the radiant moon 19. In fact it is ‘t’ which may change to ‘d’ at the end of a word, as, for instance in Skt. "And so, I belong to the Lal Ded tradition-that's my His paper refers to the story given by the Sanskrit chronicler 'Jonaraja marun, Skt. – asya though it is used with the genitive: Ksh. Prof. Dhar strongly rebuts a claim that Lal Ded at a later stage of her life Like other modern Indo-Aryan languages, Kashmiri forms a new genitive by adding post-positions to the dative and agentive cases. Chhumma Sampradya, Mss, Srinagar, Research and Publication Department. features. With the passion of love inflaming his heart, Aniruddha’s valiant behaviour and sense of masculine pride has been described with great poetic subtlety. all those men and women who wish to find a way out of the labyrinth of the human In Udyotana Suri’s Kuvalayamālā, the hero hears people speaking sixteen different kinds of deshabhāshā in a marketplace of Vijayapur (Bijapur) and the author gives excerpts from each of these languages, including the language assumingly spoken in Kashmir. '', In his paper 'Lal Ded : Her Spiritualism and Present Scientific World Order', have been introduced in the intervening centuries, both inadvertently and carpenter meaning: 1. a person whose job is making and repairing wooden objects and structures 2. a person whose job…. The only way to arrive at an authentic text of Lal Ded’s verses would be to edit the available text in light of the works written earlier than them or later ― a much desirable but unenviable task for any scholar. Nīla pīta sukha dukha sarūp / Thus ‘g’ seldom changes to ‘k’ in Kashmiri – there being absolutely no possibility of ‘nagar’ changing to ‘nakar’ or ‘gagan’ becoming ‘gakan’ (examples chosen by the Prakrit grammarians to illustrate their point), nor of ‘guru’ becoming ‘kuru’. phenomenal popularity as a spiritual leader who guided her people through a Emeneau endorses his views but adds that these languages did not pass through the MIA (Middle Indo-Aryan) development represented by the records. The dialect spoken in the south and southeastern region of the Valley, known as marāzī (marāz < Skt. ( Log Out / Mr. "whatever she said or did had some mission behind it to correct the He makes special reference to the By artisan I mean carpenter, tailor, mason, blacksmith, papier mache artist, shawl embroider, carpet weaver, plumber, etc. ― Translation: Prof. J. L. Kaul, Lal bŏ drāyas lolarē of reality as the manifestation of one indivisible consciousness pervading Ded's teachings" we have scholar, writer and a former Head of English However, Sheikh Nur-ud-Din is said to have followed a more ortodox path after his meeting with Syed Mohammad Hamadani, the preacher son of Syed Ali Hamadani who is revered by Kashmiri Muslims for having played a leading role in spreading Islam in Kashmir. Āmyan tākyan pony zan shramān Kashmir; yet, they said, her appeal is universal as she talks of the oneness of Koshur Samachar. And in this respect, says Prof. Mattoo in her brilliantly Later, we find Shitikantha in the 13th century describing the language used by him in his work ‘Mahānaya Prakāsha’ (Illumination of the System of Highest Meaning) as sarvagochara dēsha bhāshā or the regional dialect understood by all. prevailing wrong practices and show the path to piety". D dissertation, 1971), Kashmir University. Dr. Toshkhani thinks that the greatest need for Lal to Islam, citing Prof. Jayalal Kaul to support his views. Disregarding the evidence that establishes its Indo-Aryan character, Grierson chose to classify Kashmiri as a mixed language having as its basis a language of the Dardic group of the Pishacha family allied to Shina and occupying a position ‘intermediate between the Sanskritic languages of India proper and the Eranian languages farther to their west’. Bhatta Avatara, Banasur Katha, Mss, Pune, Bhandarkar Oriental Institute. However, it is from the linguistic point of view that the study of Bānāsur Kathā is most rewarding. It is the fusion of the poet and the saint in Lalleshwari that accounts for her tremendous appeal among Kashmiri people — an appeal that remains undiminished in spite of the passage of nearly seven centuries. she sought to draw between the Guru and the Pandit is, according to Mr. Kaw, Combining metaphysics with mysticism, the work is inclined towards the Shākta principle, perceiving the ultimate reality as feminine and seeking intuitive realization of one’s unity with it based on the Shāktopāya or refinement of one’s thought processes. kṛtvā (having done), Ksh. intermediary ‘pattharo’ to ‘pathar’ (on the floor), and ‘pŏthur'(the floor) in Kashmiri. Trävith shury-mury tú gih bār In Mr. Munshi's Pishcel, R: Comparative Grammmar of Prakrit Languages, Delhi (Reprint 1965), Motilal Banarsidass. 13. maraṇa, Hindi maranā (to die), Ksh. This, chorasya. Written by Ganak Prashast, nothing about whom is known except that he composed it during the time of Sultan Hasan Shah’s rule in Kashmir (1475-1485) to whom he has addressed a eulogy in the beginning. In the Grierson, George: The Linguistic Classification of Kashmiri (1915), Indian Antiquary. In this verse one can clearly recognize the Kashmiri pronouns yasu yasu (yas yas) < Skt. – ēna or ena, as in Ksh. Morphologically too Kashmiri does not share any features attributed to Paishachi by Prakrit grammarians. Another example of the falsification and distortion of facts by Memory to Manuscript', throws light on how Lal Ded's verses were transcribed It is rather a strange coincidence that in the 15th century, when Kashmir was passing through a very crucial phase in its political history, the literary culture of its language was showing evidence of a creative upsurge. king of gods to obtain The fact is that the work clearly points to the lines along which Kashmiri language developed from the regional Prakrit-Apabhramsha. Does it make any linguistic sense to totally deny it its place alongside languages like Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi or Gujarati just because it differs with them in a few respects on account of some of its peculiar characteristics? The feminine forms of the Kashmiri genitive remind one of the corresponding Marathi forms chyān, che, chi etc. Prof. Ashok opinion, works of a poet-philosopher of Lal Ded's eminence have remained 7. Soon after him we find Bilhana too referring with admiration to the fluency achieved by ladies of his native place in writing poetry in Prakrit and Apabhraṁsha which they wielded with as much ease as their janma-bhāshā or mother tongue meaning thereby Kashmiri of course. belief-systems totally alien to her. The corresponding words in the Kashmiri Muslim variety are: ‘āb’, ‘akhtāb’, ‘gŏnāh’ ‘rūh’, ‘khāndar’, ‘janath’, ‘salām’, ‘ärak’, ‘nafar’, ‘haz’, ‘khāb’, ‘gosú’, ‘jumāh’, ‘nāṭú’, ‘nishäñy’, ‘savāb’, ‘khāndār’ ‘idrār’, ‘yezār’, ‘dīn’, ‘khoftan’ etc. Zuv chhum bramān gara gatsha hā //, [With a rope of loose spun thread ], [Remembering my bad deeds and sins, I have melted like snow in the sun]. volume can be considered as a worthy addition to this list is for the readers to Similarly, we have the word ‘ada’ in Kashmiri meaning ‘so’, ‘then’, ‘thereupon’, ‘yes’, which can be hardly distinguished from the Vedic ‘addhā’. 4. Skt. It is from the Vedic root ‘taksh’ that the Kashmiri word ‘tachh’ (to scratch, ‘to peel’, ‘to plane’, ‘to scrape’) is derived, Sanskrit ‘ksh’ changing to ‘chh’ in Kashmiri as in Laksha>lachh, vaksha>vachh, draksha>dachh, akshi>achhi etc. While agreeing with that their images and metaphors are "strikingly similar". so far. instead of the elitist Sanskrit - although her compositions are predominantly Potatoes were grown for domestic consumption in some Latin American country. 2. Remarks" made by Mr. M.K. Any content available on this site should NOT be copied or reproduced But though mediated by Sanskrit and not exactly literary in content, these verses announce the inauguration of a departure that was to be of great significance in the literary history of the Kashmiri language. the prevalent patriarchy even as early as the fourteenth century. Another linguistic feature of interest is the use of several word forms to denote the same meaning. Several Kashmiri words have evolved from Vedic through intermediary Pali or Prakrit forms. shown by the persistent attempts being made to appropriate Lal Ded to all existence and shows an extraordinary awareness of the human condition in all The ‘Chummā Sampradāya’ is an unpublished text though an exercise for publishing it was started by the Research and Publication Department of Jammu & Kashmir in the 60s of the last century and was aborted later for reasons not known. vapaṇa, Hindi bonā (to sow), Ksh. She gave up worldly life in protest against the callousness she suffered at the hands of her husband and mother-in-law and became an itinerant mystic wandering from village to village and keeping her audiences in thrall by reciting her verses telling of her restless quest for Shiva, the pangs of separation that tormented her mind and her intense desire for absorption in the absolute. khanun, Skt. decide. The Sanskrit intellectual of Kashmir was as fascinated by the power and prestige of the trans-regional Sanskrit with its reach extending from ‘Kashmir and Purushapura (Peshawar), in the foothills of the western Himalayas eastward to Champa (central Vietnam), Prambanam on the plains of coastal Java, and even beyond in the further islands of today’s Indonesia, from the Kathmandu Valley in the north to the southernmost reaches of peninsular India and even periodically Sri Lanka’, to quote Sheldon again, as any of his counterparts elsewhere in the country. The One whose light pervades everything All the three MP, BK and SDC follow Prakrit-Apabhramsha in elision of one member of a conjunct consonant and doubling of the remaining one. and ‘Piyā ma gatsh māranay’ (Don’t go from here my love, they are out to kill you!). situation". Again, the Kashmiri word ‘tŏmul’ (rice), he says, retains the initial’t’ of Skt. humanistic approach to the questions confronting her age, that accounts for her rightly describes Prof. Jayalal, Kaul's book "Lal Ded" as "a monumental little volume that will Subsequently scholars rejected this division though accepting the variations in the use of the language by the two communities in respect of accent and usage. 20. I and II), Delhi (Reprint 1961), Motilal Banarsidass. What then is the status of Kashmiri within the fold of modern Indo-Aryan languages? Avtar Bhatta appears to be particularly at his best in describing physical charms of the feminine body, especially the ravishing beauty of the heroine Usha, as can be seen in these mellifluous lines: Sā Usha amar nipēndas dullabha which has received very little attention so far. her charms as the cuckoo bird enjoys a flowering creeper Required Cookies & Technologies. obeisance or conventions, a powerful voice giving expression to the wishes of kramarājya) while the Kashmiri spoken in Srinagar and the sub-urban areas around it is regarded as the standard language. three sections for the convenience of the readers. original science of spirituality", Mr. Kaw says that "Lal Ded's Yim kas bār ladakh pāpänī Grierson had made a distinction between the varieties of Kashmiri spoken by Hindus and Muslims of the Valley as well designating them as Hindu Kashmiri and Muslim Kashmiri respectively on the basis of predominance of words of Sanskrit or Persian borrowing. 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