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Historians say
Four sources: the meadow was known as GAURIMARG, the path of the goddess Gauri or Parvati, and one attributes the name specifically to local shepherds. Yousuf Shah Chak — 'the last independent king of Kashmir' by one account, reigning 1579-1586 by another — renamed it Gulmarg, meadow of flowers.