The spring of Achabal is perhaps the largest in Kashmir. Its old name was Akshvala, but it doesn t seem to have been much known in medieval times. Abul Fazal speaks in Ain-e-Akbari as
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Bumzuv is a small village situated one mile north of the sacred spring of Bavan (Mattan). It contains only a few important groups of artificial caves in Anantnag, Kashmir. They are very ostentatious unearthings, and only one of them retains its architectural features. It is carved out of a large number of limestone cliffs, offering a scene of pleasant attractiveness
The village of Kothier is situated two miles above Achabal, a little off the Achabal-Kishtwar road. The name is inferred from Kapatesvara which is a constriction of Papasudana-Kapatesvara, a moniker of Shiva to whom the spring here is sacrosanct.
In past, for many centuries this place enjoyed great credit for holiness. King Bhoja of Malwa, who was the current king of