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was a great engineer is said to have drained a large chunck of wasteland during his regime. His memory is commemorated by
Suyyapur or Sopore, a township in Baramulla district. It is said that when this great engineer was working in Sopore no people were coming forth to plunge themselves in gushing water. The king thereupon ordered that a part of treasury may be thrown into the water, a large number of people plunged into the river to get as many coins as they could. The skill of Suyya worked and the river was cleared of silt.
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and emerged as a powerful King. He was a most sagacious king, and built temples at
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