A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s5.10

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In the 11th and 12th centuries Kashmir became a prominent seat of literature and science. In about 1070-1090 A.D. here lived the poet Bilhaṇa, son of Jyeṣṭhakalaśa, who won equal fame as a writer of lyrical, epic and dramatic poems. He left Kashmir during the reign of Kalaśa (1064-1088 A.D.), probably in 1065, visited different courts in India, and finally became a court poet of King Vikramāditya VI of the western Cālukya dynasty, for whom he wrote the Vikramāṅkadevacarita² at a time when Harṣa of Kashmir was still a prince (between 1081 and 1089 A.D.).