Kashmir’s Contribution to Literary Tradition: Poetics and History

Abstract

The Kashmir’s intellectual tradition, philosophical system, and the tradition of literature have been eternal and it has progressed through dialectical and antinomical system of epistemological creation. It has also developed continuously from one acharya to another and they  have contributed in continuing the ontological, epistemological, and metaphysical discourses on the knowledge system.  The historiography on intellectual tradition of Kashmir have generally focused on highlighting the tradition of tantra, sakti, sakta, mantra and meditation. Subsequently, Hindu concept of vac, kaul tradition, heart of Siva, Kashmiri pandits and others have also been the subject of discussion.  However, the other aspects of literary tradition like poetics, nature, history have not been adequately discussed.  Viewed in this context, the present paper deals with Kashmir’s literary contribution to the field of poetics and History