The source of the river Jhelam is the Verinag spring and it is revered as a pious place by the Hindus. The spring is at the foot of the hill and the high Banihal mountain overshadows the spring. Jehangir, as a prince, visited Verinag and he writes in his memoir that a grain of poppy is visible until it touches the bottom of the spring.
Jehangir built the octagonal walls of the spring in stone and laid a garden with a canal. During the time of Shah Jahan, an octagonal arcade having recesses was raised. On the north and south sides of the spring, buildings were raised for royal purposes. As of today, nothing survived of the old glory except barren remains of a vaulted arcade on the north and a domes hall on the south.
Jehangir desired to be buried at Verinag, but he was buried at Lahore. Two inscriptions fixed in the arcade provide ample evidence about the date of its construction and the contribution made therein by Jehangir and Shah Jahan1.
1 R.C Agrawal, Kashmir and its Monumental Glory (New Delhi: Aryan Books International, 1998), 182.