द्वितीय राजतरङ्गिणी (जोनराज - कल्हणोत्तर मध्यकालीन कश्मीर का प्रामाणिक इतिहास)

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 77
country ruined by the mlechchhas ; whereupon his
favourite officers awarded to the oppressors the punish-
ment that was due to them fearlessly, openly, and with-
out asking for the king's orders. The king sowed the
seeds of fame on all sides, planted prosperity in good
men and happiness in the people, and then uprooted
his enemies. In this way he reversed the usual agricul-
tural process [of uprooting wild plants first, and sowing
and planting afterwards.] The sun is always power-
ful, and the moon is always mild, and as if to surpass
them at once, the king combined both these qualifica-
tions in himself. How shall I describe all his innumer-
able virtues in this condensed narrative? Can the king
of the elephants find room in the hole of the jackal?
I therefore paint his virtues in this book, as the Himālaya
of the three worlds are painted in a picture, or as the sun
is reflected in a mirror. As the cold and the heat are
of equal power in the early part of summer, or as the
days and nights are equal when the sun is in the equinox,
so the king looked with equal eyes on his own as on
others. As the traders do not allow any inequality
in their scales, so the king did not brook inequality [in
his administration.] As the lion does not attack other
animals in the peaceful hermitage of saints, so the
Turuṣhkas, who were much alarmed, did not now oppress
the Brāhmaṇas as they had done before. Brilliant as
the sun, the king bestowed his favours on men of merit
[Brāhmaṇas] whose very existence had been endangered