The spring of Vernag is the famous source of the Vitasta river. It as Known as Nila Naga (neel naag) or neelkanth naag and was crowned with the snake Deity of this name. Nilamata Purana indicates to us that when Parvati had obtained the assent of her husband Shiva to incarnate itself in Kashmir while the Vitasta river in order to purify the country what had been ravelled by the contact of Pisachas, which seems to have been some exotic barbarians, siva ran up against the ground against the site of the spring with its three-pronged fork Trishul, and thus released the manner for the exit of water of Parvati-Vitasta of the under world paatal.Consequently the tirtha also ream the named alternate one of Sulaghata, of the three-pronged fork of race It seems to have maintained the importance considerable among the Hindu places of the pilgrimage even while late like time of Akbar, because Abul Fazl mentions the existence, in the east, of a certain number of stone temples. In its time that had already taken its current name of Vernag, it probably borrowing from the zone of Worm, the name at this time of modern Shahabad Pargana. Abul Fazl adds that the it is a swimming pool measuring a jarib, which throws in the air in foam with an astonishing howl, and its depth is unsoundable, and is surrounded par. out of stone of fill the construction of the octagonal basin and of the arcade (dish LIV) which surrounds it now was begin with Jahangir and was achieved during the time of Jahan Shah. Old writing: the It is an octagonal tank approximately 20 yards by 20 yards. Close to him are the remainders of a place of worship for recluses: the cells cut rock and many caves. Water is excessively pure. Although I could not guess his depth, an oil poppy seed grain is obvious until it touches the bottom. There are many fish to see in him.
Because I had heard that it was unsoundable, I ordered them to throw in a cord with a joined stone, and when this cord was measured in gas it became obvious that the depth was not more one and a half of the size of a man. After my accession I ordered they to establish the sides of the spring with the stone, and them it made a garden round with a channel; and halls and houses built about it, and makes a place such as the travellers above the world can specify little as him This information of the pen of the emperor himself probably explains the complete disappearance of the temples and the stone caves, whose materials would have the means the people person in charge for the building work too trying a career to slightly put side. Buildings which Jahangir ordered to be built here only the range of twenty-four vaults around the spring remains partially intact. The vaults in the beginning built of the stone, the walls were surmounted by a line of the admirably cut out brackets which supported the gutters. A certain number those are always in existence. On two sides of the octagone are larger rooms, each one which contains a driving staircase on the higher floor, whose no trace is left. The coatings of brick of the majority of the vaults, like ruins of the walls of the second stages above the room of entry, belong to the repairs made by Wazir Punnu in the reign of late the maharaja Ranbir Singhji. Two registered the stone tablets, one pertaining to the period of Jahangir and the other with that of Jahan Shah, is built in the wall of the arcade.
Passing under the buildings leads it crossed the garden and carried water in the royal bathrooms, whose ruins and other buildings must always be seen apart from the rubble wall on the Eastern side.The jet which rises from the spring is approximately 12 ‘ in the width and functions over the entire length of the garden. It is spanned in the medium and the Scandinavian end by two barahdaris modern. Only the higher terrace is included, however the presence of the ruined water-chute, above which precipitations of jet to the bottom, before leaving the garden, suggests the existence of a lower terrace. The garden, in spite of its much shortened dimensions, the presence of the ugly huts built by the local priests, and an indescribable state of its jets and buildings, has a distinct charm, whose its royal founder seems to have been completely sensitive; for manner-worn Jahangir, which expired at Chingas close of Rajauri on its return voyage of Kashmir, requested with its breath of death to transport in Vernag to bury there. The garden with its ombreux trees, icy-cold water, and murmuring jets, eclipsed by the dark pine-plated hills, is a place pre-eminently adapted to be the retirement of a recluse and the final rest-place of an emperor world-mow.
