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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 83
as Nārāyaṇa saved the world oppressed by the Dānavās.
The king humbled those who were high and raised up
the lowly, and he thus levelled the world inorder
to sow the seed of his fame. The king had vowed not to
touch the wives of others, but he broke the vow when he
embraced the goddess of Fortune who had belonged to
others before.
Then the king, who had gone through all the cir-
cumstances of life, and who knew all things, placed
Tilakāchāryya the Buddhist, in the highest position.
Shivabhaṭṭa, Tilaka, and Siṁha the astrologer, became
the steps by which Brāhmaṇas rose to appointments. As
the kokila increases his passion by tasting the juice
of fruits, even so the king developed his finer senti-
ments by serving the principal Brāhmaṇas. Shrīmāna
Karpurabhaṭṭa, the preserver of lives, (physician) drew
men of worth into the celebrated court of the king by
his merit. Rūpyabhaṭṭa could, without the labour of cal-
culation, but by merely observing the course of the planets
in the past year, know their position in the year to come.
At times ShrīRāmānanda's explanation of steam in the
country of Darada. * * * *
The kings of Gāndhāra, Sindhu, Madra, and Adri,
of this king * * * * At this time the king of
Khuḥkhura defeated and captured Māladeva the king
of Madra, but the king caused him to be released. The
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