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0075 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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gods, and promised to punish the offender. He proceeded
to the seat of Brahma to implore his aid and that of
the other gods. His prayer being granted, the whole host
of heaven took up their position on the lofty peaks about
Kashmir, and ordered Jalodbhava to leave his watery
home. This the demon, who was invincible while in the
water, refused to do. Vishnu thereupon called on his bro-
ther, Balabhadra, to drain the lake by piercing the moun-
tain with his weapon, the plowshare. When the lake had
become dry, Jalodbhava was attacked by Vishnu, and,
after a fierce combat, slain with the god's war-disc.

Kasyapa then settled the land of Kashmir, which had
thus been produced, the gods as well as the fountain-spirits
taking up their abodes in it, while the various goddesses
adorned the land in the shape of rivers. At first men in-
habited the land only during the six summer months, and
withdrew to warmer regions each winter, leaving Kashmir
during the cold season to the Pisacas, the vilest and most
malignant of Hindu demons. At length, however, after
four yugas or ages, the Brahman Caandradera learned cer-
tain rites which freed the country from the Pisacas and from
excessive cold; and Kashmir became habitable throughout
the year. Stein and Drew, two of the most careful writers
on Kashmir, regard this tradition as founded not on his-
torical fact, but on inference from the lake-like appear-
ance of the basin, and from the fact that during floods Lake
Wular is subject to considerable fluctuations in size. It is
possible that the legend of an ancient lake, drained by the
plowshare of a god, might originate in this way, but there
is nothing in the physical features of Kashmir to give rise