Lalitadiya of past kashmir

Construction of irrigation works and improvement of agriculture
Before the time  of Lalitaditya,the vally of kashmir had been subject to recurring menace of annual floods due to the silting up of the bed of river jehlum.He was the first king of kashmir to realize that by clearing the bed of the river of rocks and silt,the flow of water would be accelerated and more water would be available for irrigation.In this respect he was the forerunner of Suyya,the great engineer  of Avantivarman.Lalitaditya got the passage cleared and,thus areas of swamps became available for cultivationj of crops.Similarly,he constructed them fit for agriculture.To augment water resoures.he also built numerous irrigation canals.Kalhana records that lalitadiya made distributary arrangements at Chakradhra and other karewas of lifting water of the vitasta and its distributaries to many villages by the construction od a series of water wheels,thus making more water available for irrigation purposes.the commulative effect of building these irrigation works was the large tracts of land which were previously under-used became productive.the production of crops increased which added to the prosperity of the people.