The History Of KASHMIR

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KASHMIR owes its name to KASH TRIBE, Not to mythical KASHYAPA!
The valley of Kashmir is known by its inhabitants as Kasheer because it was a settlement of a race known as Kash or Cush, Kashur means those who eat meat.
Kash or Cush was the son of Ham and a grandson Noah(A.S). He was the founder of the Kash or Cush tribe, which settled in the east. This tribe founded Kash, a village near Bagdad. These people named rivers, mountains, cities and countries after the name of their ancestor Kash or Cush. In Mesopotamia, they founded a kingdom, and the Kashan river in that country is a testimony of this fact. Kashmar, a village near Nishapur in Iran, was also founded by them. This tribe also proceeded towards Central Asia and founded many settlements. Kashmohra, a village in Merv; Kash, a village in Bokhara; Kashband and Kashania, villages in Samarkand, Kashgar, in the Chinese Turkistan, were their settlements in central Asia. In Mesopotamia, the tribe founded the towns of Kashan, Kashaf and Kashi. They also moved towards Afghanistan and founded settlements at Kashkar, Kashhil, Kashek and Kashu. While the Hindu-Kush mountains are named after them, they also founded a settlement south of this mountain range known as Kashmor. It was Babar the founder of the Moghul dynasty in India who pointed out in his memoirs that the etymology of the word Kashmir is derived from the Kash or Cush tribe which inhabited the valley. This tribe settled in the region now known as Kashtawar, in the Chenab valley of Kashmir. Crossing the Pir-Panjal range, these people spread in the valley of Kashmir. Kush-tawar, in the Pulwama District, Kashnag, a spring in the Islamabad District, and Isae-Kush village bear the name of this tribe.
According to an old tradition (propagated by indian historians), the name Kashmir is derived from Kashyapa. However. there is no linguistic evidence to support this idea, because the whole fable of Kashyapa and his progeny is astronomical. Had Kashyapa drained the valley of its waters or found his progeny in any part of the valley, its capital would have been termed as Kash-yapa-nagaror Kash-yapa-pur, as is the way with the etymologies of that period.
According to the latest geological researches, it has been established that the valley of Kashmir was a lake millions of years back and its water found its outlet by the volcanic agency through a narrow gorge at Baramulla.

SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION ON DRAINAGE OF LAKE:

The valley of kashmir depicts different geological formations from pre-Cambrian to recent age with some missing links, if we have basement salkhalas at one side, we have sub recent glacial periods, question under debate is karewa beds and evicting of water through Baramulah gorge, to this I may mention that this hasn’t been through volcanic eruption or tectonic activity only, but is a natural process of erosion by the surface water , which carves its way thought the barriers, Karewa is Pleistocene formation formed by alternative stages by deposition of red clay and silt, in between loess and other wind borne material, it is not totally of riverine or lacustrine origin, yes the sub recent alluvium is river Jhelum deposit along its banks when it was over flowing , with the result total plain area was almost submerged in the farm of a lake, particularly after the Pleistocene glaciation period, in recent times when human population existed along the foothills and higher places , still Jhelum would overflow and farm wide spread flood plain, ultimately human population shifted towards its banks, particularly along the right bank, constructed worship places and settled down in clusters all along, No hua force at all was needed to evacuate the water from such submerged areas, in very recent times left banks of Jhelum developed the settlement of human population, they shifted near to the river only for availability of drinking water, which was scarce to them along the hill slopes and higher settlements , lately bunds and flood protection works were raised to safeguard against overflow, formation of the topography and present shape of the valley is spread upon millions of years of timescale.
Satisar like term exists in some earliest legends and some historical books like Rajtarangni, written in 12th century ,but Kashyap Reshi concept seems to be mythological and non-digestible on existing geological and scientific proofs coupled with archeological evidences. (Jalal Ud Din Shah - Engineering Geologist).
Unfortunately, the History of Kashmir has been hijacked time and again, to fool & rule the inhabitants.It is high time that Kashmiris should take the bull by its horns and purify their history from the myths. Why we have to rely on others who have added their filth to it?