Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir To the northwest of this lake is the Buller Lake The water of several rivers including the Mahapadma, the ancient name of the lake Later, the water-filled lake overflowed The lake sometimes overflowed The water could not easily escape This caused floods in Kashmir during the rainy season.

It destroyed the crops of the fields The inevitable result was famine Several kings, including the Kashmiri king Lalitaditya (c AD 2), were not successful in permanently draining the Vitasta Later, during the reign of the first king of the Utpal dynasty, Avantivarma (AD 1), the floods caused a severe famine in Kashmir.

This caused food grain prices to rise to almost five times the normal price The price of a grain of rice, which was normal for two hundred days, rose to one thousand fifty-five (Aurel Steuer) during the famine According to the historian Aurel Stein, "The price of rice, which was the highest in Kashmir, is the highest in the world.

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When the people of Kashmir were in a panic, the king and all were distraught, an orphaned young man came forward to solve the problem There is also some history about this A Chandala woman found an orphan on the way His name was Surya Surya named this child after himself.

Surya was brought up by his foster mother Surya with the help of a neighbouring Shudra woman Surya grew up and studied He was then appointed a tutor in a family home for the education of boys Surya used to tell his friends that if he got a chance, he could solve the country's famine.

But it was not possible due to lack of money Everyone dismissed his words as a madcap No one paid attention.

Finally, the word reached King Avantivarma He summoned Surya, and he listened to him Finally, he allocated money from the treasury to test his intelligence After getting permission from the king, Surya went to work It turned out that a lot of stones fell from the surrounding hills, blocking the water flow of Vitasta at several places.

This caused the flood Surya saw that the water would go down and stop the flood when he removed the stones of the two places Surya started throwing the dinar into the water by bringing a large amount of dinar allocated from the treasury Hearing the news of the dinar being thrown into the river, the famine-stricken people rushed from all around.

They got down into the water and started looking for the dinar Thus the stone barrier was removed from Vitasta's womb Within two to three days, the flood water receded and the situation became normal.

Surya then temporarily blocked the flow of the Vitasta River for seven days with a temporary stone dam This caused the riverbed to become waterless and dry He then tied the river to the rocks so that the river could not be washed away by the collapse of the river on both sides.

The temporary dam was then dismantled and the river course was normalized Also, the river was diverted by cutting canals in places where the river had experienced erosion Earlier, the Little Indus used to meet the Vitasta near Trigami (now Tregaon) The Vitasta-Sindhu confluence was canalized near today's Shadipur as a result of Surya's new river plan.

This removed the flooding in the area.

Not many of us know the name of the sun But the Kashmiri scholar Kalhan's Rajatarangini, written in the mid-12th century CE, praises it highly Kalhan says that the sun, the giver of food, descended on the land of this mortal In Kashmir, where one khari rice was not available for two hundred dinars, the sun's efficiency allowed one khari rice to be sold for only thirty-six dinars in that region.

Hence, the name of the sun is a successful performer in the history of Kashmir.