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Evaluate Jonaraja’s account of the reign of Zain-ul-Abidin.

  • UPSC 2016
  • The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Political History

Jonaraja, a Kashmiri Sanskrit poet-historian patronised at the court of Zain-ul-Abidin (r. 1420–70), extended Kalhana's twelfth-century Rajatarangini down into his own patron's reign in a work generally called the Dvitiya (Second) Rajatarangini, making him the principal near-contemporary chronicler of the sultan often styled Bud Shah.

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  • Jonaraja within the Rajatarangini Tradition
  • What the Dvitiya Rajatarangini Actually Records
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