Kṣemendra: The Satirist Who Held Kashmir to Account

Kashmir’s intellectual heritage includes a remarkable constellation of philosophers, poets, spiritual thinkers and literary critics whose works influenced the wider history of Sanskrit learning. Among them, Kṣemendra an eleventh-century Sanskrit writer, occupies a distinctive place. He was not merely a poet who celebrated beauty or retold epic narratives. A combination of aesthetic and ethical concerns, although the extent to which his works should be read as a systematic programme of social ref

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