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According to popular legend, who was also in Rajtarangani and Nilmat Purana, two most prestigious record books is, Kashmir once a great lake, and it was Kashyap Rishi who drained it out of the water, making it a nice apartment. But geologists have their own theory, which says that geographical changes made way for the outflow of water by lowering the mountain in Khadianayar, Baramulla and this was the valley of Kashmir, the paradise on earth. Ashoka Buddhism in Kashmir in the 3rd Century BC, which was later strengthened by Kanishka. Huns got the control over the valley in the early 6th Valley between Florence and regained freedom in 530 AD, but soon came under the rule of the kingdom of Ujjain. After the fall of Vikram?itya dynasty, the valley was his own ruler. It was a synthesis of Hindu and Buddhist cultures. Lalitaditya Muktapida (697-738 AD) extended his rule up to Bengal in the east, Konkan in the south, the north-west Turkestan and Tibet in the northeast. Regarded as the most famous Hindu ruler, was for the construction Lalitaditya Muktapida beautiful building. Islam came to Kashmir in the 13th and 14 Century AD, Zain-ul-Abedin (1420-70) was the most famous Muslim ruler, who came to Kashmir when the Hindu king Dev Sinha fled before the Tatar invasion. Later Chaks overran Haider Shah, son of Zain-ul-Abedin. They continued to conquer until 1586 the rule when Akbar Kashmir. In 1752, Kashmir passed to the weak control of the Mughal emperors of the time, Ahmed Shah Abdali of Afghanistan. The valley was ruled by the Pashtuns for 67 years.The name figures in the Mahabharata, Jammu. New data from the Harappan remains, and has artifacts from the Mauryan, Kushan and Gupta periods, in Akhnoor have new dimensions to its ancient character. The country was divided into 22 hill principalities of Jammu. Raja Maldev, one of the Dogra rulers, who conquered many territories to consolidate his empire. Raja Ranjit Dev ruled over Jammu 1733 until 1782. His successors were weak, and so Maharaja Ranjit Singh annexed the territory in Punjab. Later, Raja of Jammu had been handed over to Gulab Singh, a scion of the old Dogra ruling family power under Governors Ranjit Singh and had added almost the entire region of Jammu. The state was by Dogra rulers till 1947 when the Maharaja Hari Singh signed the Instrument of Accession to the benefit of the Indian Union on 26 October 1947 regulated.
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