Parihaspora or Parihaspur or Paraspore or Paraspur was a small town 22 kilometres (14 mi) northwest of Srinagar in the Kashmir Valley.

[1] It was built by Lalitaditya Muktapida (695–731 CE) and served as the capital of Kashmir during his reign.

The Jhelum River is to the northeast of Parihaspur as it meets the Sind Nallah at Shadpur sangam.

The change in the course of the river is not natural but was engineered by famous Soya Pandit during Raja Avanti Varman's time (855–883 CE).

[citation needed] According to Kalhana he cannibalised all the "good material" from these temples and palaces to build his city of Shankarpur (Pattan).

[citation needed] The final blow to the temples came when Sultan Sikandar destroyed them completely in the fourteenth century.

[6] Some of the finest examples of the carved figures of seated and standing atlantes have been taken to the Srinagar Museum.