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

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censures on any king till he was dead or deposed. As
court pandits they had in full measure the vice of such
people,—fulsome adulation of their patrons.—They did
not hesitate to raise Mahomedan princes not only above
the ancient heroes of their country, whom as Hindus
they must have revered, but even above the gods of the
Hindus. A strict impartiality of opinion cannot be
expected from such writers. A true history cannot be
written when the writer has a purpose to serve other
than writing a true history. There is however no reason
to disbelieve the correctness of their accounts, irres-
pective of the writers' views regarding the events
narrated.
No one can be more alive to the defects of the trans-
lation than the translator himself. He is however the
first to translate these valuable records into English,
and he hopes that the public will view his performance
with the indulgence due to a first attempt of difficult
work. He trusts it will form the ground work for tran-
slations which will no doubt be more scholarly than his,
especially when undertaken by a European scholar like
Dr. Stein of Lahore. A European commands much
greater resources in this country than what a native
of the country may hope to do.
In conclusion the translator begs to offer his best
thanks to his teacher Pandit Ālokanāth Nyāyabhūshaṇa
with whom he read the Rājataraṅgiṇī almost from the
beginning to the end. He is also deeply obliged