The Irrigational System in Early Medieval Kashmir

The irrigational system plays an important role in the development of agriculture. The irrigational system has been mentioned in the primary sources like Nilamata Purana and Rajatarangini. The secondary sources are also used to supplement the study. The rulers of Kashmir, especially Lallitaditya and Avantivarman, undertook various measures to protect the cultivated lands from floods and conserved the water for irrigation purposes, which resulted in the spread of agricultural expansion to a large extent. The irrigation minister of Avantivarman namely Suvya played an amazing game in this direction. The present paper studies the role of the irrigational system in the development of agriculture in early medieval Kashmir.