Parihaspore
Parihaspora or Parihaspur or Paraspore or Paraspur was a small town northwest of Srinagar in the Kashmir Valley. It was built on a plateau above the Jhelum River. It was built by Lalitaditya Muktapida (695–731) and served as the capital of Kashmir during his reign.
Quotes
[edit]- [T]he glorious silver [image of Visnu] Parihasakesava [which] shone like the god [Visnu] ... the famous [image of] Visnu Muktakesava, made of gold; the [image of Visnu] Mahavaraha.
- Rajatarangini, I, as translated in M. Jain, Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples (2019), p. 50
- The deities enshrined in the temple of Parihasapura.
- It was adorned with many fine temples and monuments; among others, with a pillar cut out of one stone, twenty four yards high, at the top of which stood the image of Garuda, half-man and half-eagle.
- Charles von Hügel (1854), quoted in M. Jain, Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples (2019)
- The Surij Bagh is probably on the site of the once famous city of Parihasapur, of the marvels of which the native legends speak so highly. This city was built by the great conqueror Lalitaditya, who reigned from A.D. 714 to 750, and was adorned with many fine temples and monuments; among others, with a pillar cut out of one stone, twenty-four yards high, at the top of which stood the image of Garuda, half-man, half-eagle. Sikandar Budh Shikan probably destroyed it, but several fragments were seen in 1727 by Mohammed Azim. Immense images of gold, silver, and other metals, also adorned the interior, but all traces of this splendour have disappeared.
- Charles von Hügel, Travels In Kashmir And The Punjab, Languages Department, Punjab, first published 1844. Quoted from Jain, M. (editor) (2011). The India they saw: Foreign accounts. New Delhi: Ocean Books. Volume IV Chapter 9
- about the pillar at Surij Bagh [the Bagh was made by Surij Bahri, who was summoned to Kashmir by Moti Ram, the first viceroy under Ranjit Singh]
- [The Parihāsapura monuments (near Śrīnagar) of the Cankuna stūpa (Kārkota dynasty, 8th century)] “served as a model all across Asia from the Pamir Mountains to Japan”.
- S. Huntington, The Art of Ancient India. Weatherhill, New York, 1985, 360-85
- quoted from Kak, S. (2004). The Vedic gods of Japan.
