(1)               Yousuf Bukharī, Kashmīrī Zabān-o-Adab kī Mukhtāṣar Tārīkh, (Islamabad: Muqtadra Qaumi Zabān Pakistan 2012), p. 307.

(2)               Jia Lāl Kol, Lal Dīd, (Sirinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages Kashmir 1984) p.271.

(3)               Burj Paraimī, Kashmīr Ke Mazāmīn, (Sirinagar: Tapasia Natīpura Kashmir, 1989), p. 152.

(4)               Jia Lāl Kol, Lal Dīd, p.70.

(5)               ‘Abdul Aḥad Azād, Kashmīrī Zabān aur Shā‘airī  (Sirinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages Kashmir 1959), part.3, p. 356.

(6)               Yousuf Taing: Kuliyāt-i Azād, (Sirinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages Kashmir 1983), p. 232.

(7)               Shafi’ Shauq, Najī Munavvar, Ka’āshar Zabān te Adbak Tavārīkh, (Srinagar: ‘Ali Muḥammad sons Kashmir 2012), p.418.

(8)               Amīn Kāmil, Ka’shra Asan Tarāye, (Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages Kashmir 1966), p.103.

(9)               Yousuf  Bukharī, Kāshar Ghazal, (Lahore: Department of Kashmiriat, University of the Punjab 1994), p. 48.

(10)           Yousuf Taing, Shīraz (Dina Nāth Nadim Number), (Sirinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages Kashmir 1989), p. 9.

(11)           Triloknath Raina, A History of Kashmiri Literature, (Delhi: Sahitya Academy, 2002), p.130.

(12)           ibid.

(13)           Shamīm Aḥmad Shamīm, Dag teh Dāgh, (Sirinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages Kashmir 1989), p. 25.

(14)           Mīr ‘Abdul ‘Aziz, Ḥazrat Shaikh Nor al-Dīn Vali, (Rawalpindi: Markaz-i Adab-o-Sakafat-i Kashmir, 1980), p.35.

(15)           Mīr ‘Abdul ‘Aziz, Kashmīrī Zabān Shīkhane k li’e Ba’aẓ Rahnumā Usūl, (Rawalpindi: Markaz-i Adab-o-Sakafat-i Kashmir, 1980), p.34.

(16)           Ḥabib Kaifvi, Kashmīr meṉ Urdū, (Lahore: Markazi Urdu Board Pakistan 1979), p. 405.

(17)           Shafi’ Shauq, Najī Munavvar, Ka’āshar Zabān te Adbak Tavārīkh, p.441.