A History of Sanskrit Literature c14.s8.14

c14.s8.14

Finally there may be noted the work of the Kashmir writers who continued the *Rājataraṅgiṇī*.³ Jonarāja, who died in 1459, carried it on under the same style to the reign of Sultan Zainu-l-‘ābidīn; his pupil Çrīvara covered in the *Jaina-Rājataraṅgiṇī* in four books the period 1459-86, while Prājya Bhaṭṭa and his pupil Çuka in the *Rājāvalipatākā* carried on the tale to some years after the annexation of Kashmir by Akbar. The work of these writers is devoid of originality or merit; Çrīvara shamelessly borrows from Kalhaṇa, and, despite the length of the period with which they deal, the total of their work is not more than half that of the *Rājataraṅgiṇī*; they waste space in episodic descriptions, and they are far less accurate in matters of topography than Kalhaṇa.