“According to a tradition the drainer of this lake was ascetic named Kashyapa , hence the reclaimed land as called Kashyap-pur or Kash-yap-mar and later Kashmir. The ancient Greeks called it Kaspeiria and in the classical literature Herodutus mentions it as Kaspatyros and Hekataios calles it by the name of Kaspalyros or Kaspapyros. It is called Shie-mi in the narrative of To Yeng and Sung Yan (578 AD) Heun Tsiang who visited Kashmir inn 631 AD calls it Kia-shi-mi-lo. Kashmir has further been shortened in to Kashir by the Kashmiris in their own tongue. The Tibetans called it Khachal and Dards Kashrat.“
- P.N.K. Bamzai.