Life Sketch of Laleshwari, a Great Hermitess of Kashmir by Pandit Anand Koul

Poetry

Author

Pandit Anand Koul

First published

1921, The Indian Antiquary, Bombay

Language

English, with Kashmiri sayings

This edition

21 pages · PDF, 2 MB

Source

Internet Archive: as published in The Indian Antiquary, November 1921 onwards

Pandit Anand Koul, one of the first Kashmiri scholars to write about his homeland in English, tells the life of Lal Ded as it was remembered in Kashmir, with the legends about her and a collection of her sayings in Kashmiri with English translations.

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About this book

This study appeared in instalments in The Indian Antiquary from November 1921. Koul opens with the place of women in Kashmir's history and then follows Lal Ded's life from her birth near Pandrenthan in the fourteenth century, through her unhappy marriage, to her life as a wandering ascetic revered by Hindus and Muslims alike.

The second part gathers her sayings, each given in Kashmiri with a translation. Read alongside Grierson and Barnett's Lalla-Vakyani, it gives a fuller picture of how her verses were known and understood a century ago.