<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Kashmirian efflorescence was a remarkable, even if brief phase, in the intellectual development of Hindus. Almost simultaneously we witness the emergence of several great savants, even as Kashmir defied the Islamic onslaught of the accursed Mahmud of Ghazna and his successors. It was one of the last blazes of Hindu productivity before it was seized and dented by the savagery of the barbaric Mohammedans. We see many great figures like abhinavagupta, somadeva, kShemendra and mammaTa. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan reflected this:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>The mohammadan conquest, with its propagandist work and later the Christian missionary movement, attempted to shake the stability of Hindu society and in an age deeply conscious of instability, authority naturally became the rock on which alone it seemed that social safety and ethical order could be reared. The Hindu, in the face of the clash of cultures, fortified himself with conventions and barred all entry to invading ideas. There were no longer any thinkers, but only scholars who refused to strike new notes, and were content to raise echoes of the old call. </b>If the leaders of recent generations have been content to be mere echoes of the past and not independent voices, if they have been intellectual middlemen and not original thinkers, this sterility is to no small extent due to the shock of western spirit and the shame of subjection.
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While the above could have been true for rest of the large parts of India, however in case of Kashmir, we still saw original thinkers for a few more centuries.
HHji, have you also written about udbhaTTa and his contribution?
Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan reflected this:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>The mohammadan conquest, with its propagandist work and later the Christian missionary movement, attempted to shake the stability of Hindu society and in an age deeply conscious of instability, authority naturally became the rock on which alone it seemed that social safety and ethical order could be reared. The Hindu, in the face of the clash of cultures, fortified himself with conventions and barred all entry to invading ideas. There were no longer any thinkers, but only scholars who refused to strike new notes, and were content to raise echoes of the old call. </b>If the leaders of recent generations have been content to be mere echoes of the past and not independent voices, if they have been intellectual middlemen and not original thinkers, this sterility is to no small extent due to the shock of western spirit and the shame of subjection.
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While the above could have been true for rest of the large parts of India, however in case of Kashmir, we still saw original thinkers for a few more centuries.
HHji, have you also written about udbhaTTa and his contribution?