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0077 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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the general water-logged condition of the country. Many
attempts had been made to mend matters, and at last, to
quote Stein, "Suyya, a man of conspicuous talents but
low origin, offered to remedy the troubles. The operations
commenced at Yaksadara, where large rocks, which had
rolled down from the mountains lining both river-banks,
obstructed the Vitasta (Jhelum). . . . Yaksadara, the pre-
sent Dyaragul, is a spur projecting into the river-bed some
three miles below the commencement of the Baramula
gorge. Its rocky foot forms the first rapid of the river [after
it leaves the Kashmir plain]. By removing the obstruct-
ing rocks, the level of the river was lowered. Then a stone
dam was constructed across the bed of the river, and the
latter thus blocked up completely for seven days. During
this time the river-bed was cleared at the bottom, and
stone walls constructed to protect it against rocks which
might roll down. The dam was then removed, and the river
flowed forth with increased rapidity through the cleared
passage. I must leave it to competent engineering opinion
to decide to what extent and at which point of the Bara-
mula gorge the operations so far described were practicable
with the technical skill of that age. What follows in Kal-
hana's account is so matter-of-fact, and so accurate in
topographical points, that a presumption is raised as to the
previous statements, also resting, partially at least, on his-
torical facts."

Yaksadara, the seat of the operations, lies directly oppo-
site the mouth of a large stream which, in the ten miles from
its source near Gulmarg, descends seven thousand feet. It
appears as though, at the time of Avantivarman, the large