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Bio-Data and Background information Lalded was married at the age of twelve to one Pandit boy at Pampore (ancient Padmanpora) where presumably she was renamed Padmawati, as per the Kashmiri Pandit tradition, by her-in-laws. >>>		Lalla-Vaakhs (Translated) The arrows of my wooden bow turned out To be the pith of water rush grass; The Rajdhani of the kingdom Fell into the rustic hands of A crude carpenter; In the midst of a busy bazar, Lockless remained my shop, And a pilgrimmage less self. I became: Who appreciates, my friend. >>>

Interlogue - I In wonder, one gets absorbed into thinking whether these honey-sweet Vaakhs: Shruks and poems of the three saint poets described in this volume, that appeal to the heart, and stimulate the mind, are innate, intuitive or oozing fountains of eternal knowledge or clairvoyance. >>>