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Islaam virtually destroyed Kashmir Shaivism? Although most of the population is at present Muslim, before the advent of Islam in the thirteenth century, Kashmir enjoyed an unparalleled reputation as a centre of learning amongst both Buddhists and Hindus. Kashmiris excelled not only in religious studies but also in the secular fields of Sanskrit literature, literary criticism and grammar as well as the sciences, including medicine, astronomy and mathematics. They had a uniquely realistic sense of history clearly evidenced in Kalhana's twelfth century chronicle of the kings of Kashmir, the Rajatarariginl, which is virtually the only history of its kind in India.
