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

94 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
when even an inferior being does not. Thus informed
by the lord of the Nāgas [in a dream] the king thought
to himself that he would raise the land like an umbrella,
and make it beautiful as a jewelled cup. * * * *
In that great land which would be raised in the
midst of the billowy lake, in that holy and lonely spot,
the hermits would attain emancipation. With stones
carried in strong waggons the king filled up the centre
of the billowy lake which was fathomless before. When
the middle of the lake became land the king built on it

• • • • Jainalaṅkā * * * * It was on one extremity
        of this very lake that king Jayāpīḍa had raised land
        by the help of the king of the Rākṣhasas. If in the
        dewy season the lotus plants, the water nuts, and the
        kavuka plants be uprooted, the foundation of Shrī
        Jayāpīḍakoṭa can be seen in the bottomless gulf. On the
        margin of the billowy lake were Suyyakuṇḍalaka and
        many other villages with traces of large houses. The
        king now built the rich town of Jainalaṅkā in a deep
        part of the lake where even hills would be drowned,
        and he appointed a superintendent of the town * * * *
        Rūpyabhāṇḍa, a man of beaming intelligence, decorated
        the palace gates * * * * At Kramarājya, he built
        Suratrāṇapura graced with houses that humbled the pride
        of the peaks of the Himālaya. The king, who had sub-
        dued his enemies, built Jainakoṭṭa with houses all around
        and adorned with silk banners above the buildings. It
        was through the king's orders and by the intelligence of