The Stories of the romance of Kashmir are loving woven into its snow-clad mountains and crystalline streams, in its lavish gardens and luxurious houseboats on Nagin lake and shikaras on Dal Lake, in the saffron fields of pampore and the alpine meadows of Sonmarg in its autumn-tinted Chinars grown by homesick Central Asians and its floating MARKETS on the Jehlum River, its spirituality lies deeply stamped in its numerous shrines and temples. Its peripatetic history is colorfully documented in its glacial passes and monuments, in its picturesque towns and villages and its multi-racial populace. There have been different versions of the legend behind the name of Kashmir. It is said that the great saint Kashyap Rishi went on a pilgrimage to the place. When he reached Naukabandan near Kaunsarnag, at the request of the people he killed Bahudev, the giant of Satisar and let the water of the lake flow out near Baramulla. Thus, the place came to be known as Kashyapmar or the some other historia