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When Hiuen Tsiang visited the country in the seventh century, Buddhism seems to have considerably revived. The kings of the Karkota and Utpala dynasties were tolerant and built Buddhist *vihāras* as well as Hindu temples. By the fourteenth century the Hindu rulers had become weak and effete, and a military adventurer from the south murdered Kota Rani, the widow of the last sovereign, A.D. 1339, and usurped the legal power as Sha Mir. As thus Muhammadanism rose in power, the old temples were either destroyed or were neglected and fell to ruin, as in northern India. There is thus no Buddhist *vihāra* in Kashmir and the few Hindu temples are in ruins.