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The earliest religious beliefs of Kashmir appear to have been the worship of Nāgas or serpent deities. The Nāga divinities were accepted by the Buddhists and worked into the mythology of the Māhayāna school. Until the sixth century this was probably the predominant religion of the country. Mihirkula, a white Hun who was a Śaiva, acquired the sovereignty about A.D. 530, and ‘was a bitter prosecutor of the Buddhists, at the same time fostering the Brahmanical cult.’