Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@Himalayologist 2/ Scholars such as Mohammed Ishaq Khan seem to reject simplistic claims of the order as an emergent property of, say, Islamic-Buddhist-Jain-Gandharan syncretism. That said, the culture of Kashmir cannot be denied - the term 'Rishi' is, of course, clearly of Sanskrit derivation.

I broke the sword, molded sickles out of it.
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I broke the sword, molded sickles out of it.

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Ya Fattah

Food will survive only until the woods survive. - Nund Rishi
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Food will survive only until the woods survive. - Nund Rishi