Takhti-Suleman

Takhti-Suleman

Shankaracharya Temple, Kashmir where Sri Aurobindo had spiritual experience at 1903. This is antique temple of Shiva. Internal diameter of temple is 4,3 m. It is disposed at top of hill Shankaracharya (another name of hill is "Takht-e-Sulaiman") near Srinagar. Temple is about 1000 ft above the city. It is one of the oldest buildings of Kashemir. It was built by Jaluka, son of imperator Ashok about 200 B.C. It was rebuilt by unknown hindu devotee at times of imperator Jehangir.

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Kashmir is a large region that has been in dispute between India, Pakistan, and China since the partition of India in 1947. The Indian state is bounded on the west and north by the Pakistani portions of Jammu and Kashmir, on the northeast by the Chinese-held portion of Jammu and Kashmir, and on the southeast and south by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab. The mountain Takhti-Suleman is located at Pakistan Kashmir 30°22'North 70°8' East.

According to legend, an ascetic named Kashyapa reclaimed the land of Kashmir from a vast lake, and the reclaimed land came to be known as Kashyapamar and, later, Kashmir. Buddhism was introduced by Ashoka, and later the region gained prominence as a centre of Hindu culture. A succession of Hindu dynasties ruled over Kashmir until 1346, when it came under Muslim rule; it was annexed to the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab in 1819 and to the Dogra kingdom of Jammu in 1846. The (Hindu) Dogra dynasty ruled the region until 1947, when British India was partitioned into a Hindu India and a Muslim Pakistan.

More than 90 percent of the state is mountainous. Physiographically the region comprises (southwest to northeast) the fertile and relatively low-lying Jammu and Punch plains, the thickly forested (coniferous) Himalayan foothills (2,000 to 7,000 feet [600 to 2,100 m]), the heavily glaciated Pir Panjal Range (12,500 feet [3,800 m]), the Vale of Kashmir at an elevation of 5,300 feet (1,600 m), the complex central Himalayan ranges (more than 20,000 feet [6,100 m]), the upper Indus River valley (11,000 feet [3,350 m]), the Ladakh plateau, and the Karakoram Range (more than 25,000 feet [7,600 m]). The Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, and Tawi are the principal rivers; Dal and Wular are the major lakes.

The climate varies from alpine in the northeast to subtropical in the southwest. Annual average precipitation ranges from 3 inches (75 mm) in the north to 45 inches (1,150 mm) in the southwest.