Kashmir Valley

The Kashmir Valley, also known as the Vale of Kashmir, is a valley bounded on the southwest by the Pir Panjal Range and on the northeast by the main Himalayas range. It is approximately 135 km long and 32 km wide, and drained by the Jhelum River.

Quotes

 * With the Vedas, the six appendices, with the Pada and Krama (texts), with Vedånta and Siddhånta, logic and grammar, Purana recitation, with (Tantric) Mantras and the six traditional sects ... with its masses of Puranic, Vedic (śruti) and logic disciplines (tarkaśåstra), and, moreover, marked by Agnihotrins, with Brahmins devoted to meditation, asceticism, recitation and so on, and zealeaously engaged with ablutions, worship, and the like, ... the land of Kashmir is the best.
 * Rajataranginī of Jonaraja, B 747


 * Kashmir, the rest is worthless
 * Emperor Jehangir, in Byline, Chronicle Books, 1 January 2003, p. 248
 * Attributed to Jahangir who, while on his death bed, is reported to have expressed his cherished desire.


 * In the Kashmir Valley (1014 C.E.), according to Utbi, the captives taken “were so plentiful that they became very cheap…”
 * Utbi about slaves in Kashmir, quoted in Lal, K. S. (1994). Muslim slave system in medieval India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 10


 * Kashmir was India’s paradise, an alpine “Switzerland” for the Moghuls…
 * Waldemar Hansen, in "The Peacock Throne: The Drama of Mogul India", p. 68


 * Even now Kashmiris are the most expert craftsmen of the east; and it is not difficult to believe that the same people, who at present excel all other Orientals as weavers, gunsmiths and as calligraphers, must once have been the most eminent of Indian architects.
 * Walter Lawrence, in INTACH, "Shehr -i- Kashmir"