In the eleventh century, a brahmin named Champak had a son named Kalhan. The brahmin was a courtier of King Harsh of Kashmir. Kalhan was intelligent and creative and did the great job of putting in verse the various stories that had grown around the rulers of Kashmir, showing how the royalty of Kashmir interacted with gods as well as serpents and kings of lands as distant as Lanka. Written in Sanskrit, the stories are in eight waves (tarang) or sections. Together, they make a narrative flow (tarangini) of the royal (raja) history of Kashmir-the Rajatarangini.
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