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India is a country which has witnessed many great kings and emperors like Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka, Kanishk, Samudra Gupta, Harshvardhan and many others. Some of them got place in the history and some of them were not as lucky as others.
There is one more difference, some of the indian kings are not available into the history textbooks of indian students in junior classes but you may find their history on higher education or you may find their history in books written by various historians time to time.
But we are here going to discuss about a king who never got a place not only in junior textbooks but in higher studies too. Nighter he got attention of any indian historian so that he can research on him and publish a good quality book about him.
The funny part is that this king is considered as the alexander of Kashmir by the foreign historians, This king was the 8th century king of kashmir ‘Lalitaditya’ who not only defeated arab invaders of india but he was also considered as the samraat(emperor) of india.
If we believe on rajtarangini(a historical books of kashmir written by kalhana and then abhinav gupta) Lalitaditya’s empire was spread up to the caspian sea in the north to bangaal in the east and karnataka in the south.
About Lalitaditya
Lalitaditya was born in the year of 699 as the third son of Durlabhak-Pratapaditya of kashmir. He belonged to the Nagvanshi Karkota Kayastha Dynasty of kashmir, According to historian R.C. Majumdar karkota kayastha families were in the army of the kings of kashmir from many centuries, kashmiri kings gave them the title of Sakhasena in respect of their valor in the battlefield. In the year of 624 A.D., one of the commander of kashmir army named Durlabh Vardhana who belongs to the karkota dynasty married to the kashmiri king’s daughter and hence he founded the karkota vansha.
Durlabhak-Pratapaditya was the grandson of Durlabhvardhana. Lalitaditya was the youngest son of Durlabhak, he named him ‘Muktapida’, his two older brothers were ‘Chandrapida and Tarapida’. After the death of king Pratapaditya in 710 A.D.
His eldest son Chandrapida became the king of kashmir, it is said that Chandrapida was brave and noble king, his public loved him, he had all the qualities which are necessary to be a great emperor but after ruling for 7 years he died suddenly, the reason of his death is unknown until now, After Chandrapida, Tarapida became the king, he was not as able and brave as his elder brother, he was quite weak physically and after ruling for almost 1.5 years he died due to a stroke.
After the death of the both elder brothers ‘Muktapida’ holded the throne of kashmir, he became king in 719 A.D. At the age of just 20 years, This was the time when india’s western front was invaded by the Arabs, just 7 years before the lalitaditya’s coronation, kingdom of sindh was invaded by an arab general named Mohammad Bin Qasim, province of swat, multan and peshawar were under the control of arabs who were threatening central indian kingdom and of course kashmir.
Lalitaditya had to deal with some conventional enemies like daradas, kabhojas and bhuttas of ladakh which was under tibetan empire then. He also had a threat from turks in the north and king Yashoverman of kannauj in the south.
Here is a small information about the life events of lalitaditya-
There is one more difference, some of the indian kings are not available into the history textbooks of indian students in junior classes but you may find their history on higher education or you may find their history in books written by various historians time to time.
But we are here going to discuss about a king who never got a place not only in junior textbooks but in higher studies too. Nighter he got attention of any indian historian so that he can research on him and publish a good quality book about him.
The funny part is that this king is considered as the alexander of Kashmir by the foreign historians, This king was the 8th century king of kashmir ‘Lalitaditya’ who not only defeated arab invaders of india but he was also considered as the samraat(emperor) of india.
If we believe on rajtarangini(a historical books of kashmir written by kalhana and then abhinav gupta) Lalitaditya’s empire was spread up to the caspian sea in the north to bangaal in the east and karnataka in the south.
About Lalitaditya
Lalitaditya was born in the year of 699 as the third son of Durlabhak-Pratapaditya of kashmir. He belonged to the Nagvanshi Karkota Kayastha Dynasty of kashmir, According to historian R.C. Majumdar karkota kayastha families were in the army of the kings of kashmir from many centuries, kashmiri kings gave them the title of Sakhasena in respect of their valor in the battlefield. In the year of 624 A.D., one of the commander of kashmir army named Durlabh Vardhana who belongs to the karkota dynasty married to the kashmiri king’s daughter and hence he founded the karkota vansha.
Durlabhak-Pratapaditya was the grandson of Durlabhvardhana. Lalitaditya was the youngest son of Durlabhak, he named him ‘Muktapida’, his two older brothers were ‘Chandrapida and Tarapida’. After the death of king Pratapaditya in 710 A.D.
His eldest son Chandrapida became the king of kashmir, it is said that Chandrapida was brave and noble king, his public loved him, he had all the qualities which are necessary to be a great emperor but after ruling for 7 years he died suddenly, the reason of his death is unknown until now, After Chandrapida, Tarapida became the king, he was not as able and brave as his elder brother, he was quite weak physically and after ruling for almost 1.5 years he died due to a stroke.
After the death of the both elder brothers ‘Muktapida’ holded the throne of kashmir, he became king in 719 A.D. At the age of just 20 years, This was the time when india’s western front was invaded by the Arabs, just 7 years before the lalitaditya’s coronation, kingdom of sindh was invaded by an arab general named Mohammad Bin Qasim, province of swat, multan and peshawar were under the control of arabs who were threatening central indian kingdom and of course kashmir.
Lalitaditya had to deal with some conventional enemies like daradas, kabhojas and bhuttas of ladakh which was under tibetan empire then. He also had a threat from turks in the north and king Yashoverman of kannauj in the south.
Here is a small information about the life events of lalitaditya-
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