द्वितीय राजतरङ्गिणी (जोनराज - कल्हणोत्तर मध्यकालीन कश्मीर का प्रामाणिक इतिहास)
द्वितीय राजतरङ्गिणी (जोनराज - कल्हणोत्तर मध्यकालीन कश्मीर का प्रामाणिक इतिहास)
Dvitiya Rajatarangini of Jonaraja (History of Kashmir)
राजानक जोनराज (सम्पादक: रघुनाथ सिंह) द्वारा
DevanagariHindipublished464 पृष्ठ
पृष्ठ 101, कुल 464 में से
संदर्भ में पढ़ेंपृष्ठ 101
- KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
tion, the minds of his subjects were washed clean ; and
when he displayed his royal umbrella, the power of his
enemies became still. His wise policy was like the
sugar in the juice of the sugarcane, and it removed the
people's thirst for the good kings of old. The king re-
vived the disregarded laws of previous kings, as the
spring revives the plants destroyed by the winter. His
prowess and his wise policy vied with each other in
overcoming his enemies who were hard to subdue ; and
sometimes his prowess and sometimes his policy pre-
vailed. Beauty dwelt in his person, and the goddess
of learning on his lips, Fortune rested in his breast,
and Patience in his mind ; and when Fame saw this, she
spread his reputation afar. The king's virtuous mode
of government in the Kaliyuga became glorious like the
very middle of the Satyayuga. The younger brother of
the king of Kashmira named ShriMahat Madakhāna be-
came his partner in royalty, his councellor in matters of
policy and a judge in the investigation of the Shāstras.
What more need he said of ShriMahat Madakhāna than
that through the king's influence he became like the
king, save only that he had not the royal umbrella
and chāmara. What the spring is to Cupid, what the
master's favourite is to other servants, that was the king
of the Khuḥkhuras to the monarch,—the most beloved
of all who served him.
As the fruit of his obtaining the kingdom, the king
thought it proper to abolish evil practices from the