Ushkura

Ushkura is an ancient Buddhist site near Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Baramulla is located on the Jhelum river around 55 km from the capital city Srinagar. It was an important trading centre during British rule, as it formed the western entrance to the Kashmir Valley.
According to Hindu purans, the Kashmir Valley was once a lake known as Satisaras (Parvati’s Lake in Sanskrit). Ancient Hindu textbooks relate that the lake was home to the demon Jalodbhava (meaning “originated from water”) until Lord Vishnu took the form of a boar and struck the mountain at Varahamula. This created an outlet for the water to flow out of the lake. Baramulla was called Varahamulaksetra or Varahaksetra in the old days. Originally, it was a suburb of Huviska pura (modern Ushkur). Associated with the Adivaraha, the Wild boar incarnation of Lord Vishnu was considered very pious. In the ninth and tenth centuries, there were many temples and monasteries during the reign of Lalitaditya Muktapida, Queen Sugandha, and Ksemagupta, when the worship of Vishnu flourished there