On some thread, we were conversing about the ancient migrations of brAhmaNa-s from kAshmIra towards south India. But here is an interesting piece of trivia I unexpectedly stumbled upon -- which suggests that actually there might have been at least some instances where brAhmaNa-s from south migrated towards kAshmIra as well.
abhinavagupta can be said to be the best sample of the intellectual flowering that once took place in kAshmIra. He mentions that his own preceptor on the sciences of poetics was indurAja the son of bhUtirAja and gradson of sauchuka, from a lineage of kAtyAyana brAhmaNa-s. Now the family of this poetry-scientist, the famous alaMkAraka indurAja, a serious propagator of kAshmIraka rIti -- they came from ko~NkaNa as he freely declares himself a kauMkaNa in his works. So, here was a third generation naturalized kAshmIraka from a southern family.
Another kAshmIraka poet ma~Nkha records a mention in his shrI-kaNTha-charita about a certain ko~NkaNa brAhmaNa called tejakaNTha who was sent by parAditya the ruler of ko~NkaNa to kAshmIra and who gained his fame there.
abhinavagupta can be said to be the best sample of the intellectual flowering that once took place in kAshmIra. He mentions that his own preceptor on the sciences of poetics was indurAja the son of bhUtirAja and gradson of sauchuka, from a lineage of kAtyAyana brAhmaNa-s. Now the family of this poetry-scientist, the famous alaMkAraka indurAja, a serious propagator of kAshmIraka rIti -- they came from ko~NkaNa as he freely declares himself a kauMkaNa in his works. So, here was a third generation naturalized kAshmIraka from a southern family.
Another kAshmIraka poet ma~Nkha records a mention in his shrI-kaNTha-charita about a certain ko~NkaNa brAhmaNa called tejakaNTha who was sent by parAditya the ruler of ko~NkaNa to kAshmIra and who gained his fame there.