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0076 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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to the circumstantial details of the great cold of antiquity,
the long prevalence of winter, the occupation of the coun-
try by nomads at first during only half the year, and the
later change to conditions adapted to agriculture. The cir-
cumstantial character of the legend and the agreement of
the details with physiographic facts in Kashmir and else-
where, as will shortly appear, give ground for believing that
the story is founded on fact.

Another legend, also quoted by Stein, relates how, after
the drying up of the lake, the site was occupied by a town
called Candrapura. A certain holy man, coming to the
town and being refused entertainment, cursed it, and fore-
told its destruction by water. Later, a fountain-god, who
visited the country in the guise of an old Brahman, asked
and obtained permission to settle in the town, and then out
of gratitude revealed himself in his true form and warned
the king of the prospective submersion of the city. The
king and his people accordingly migrated a short distance
westward and, under the god's direction, founded a new
town. Then the god took up his residence in the lake, which
soon overwhelmed the old city. The natives say that ruins,
supposed to be those of this city, have been seen at the
bottom of Lake Wular.

Turning from legend to attested history, it appears that
Kashmir, now and always, has suffered more or less from
famine, due, not to drought, as in so many countries, but
to floods, which drown the rice crop. In the time of King
Avantivarman, A. D. 855–883, as Stein, on the authority
of Kalahana, relates, Kashmir had long been suffering
from peculiarly disastrous floods of this sort, and from