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

order to allay the pain of the sore, physicians bandaged
one of his feet with thongs for life. In this place he
lived five years with difficulty, and made various attempts
to reach his own country and to take possession of his
wealth. [Here it is said that a portion of the MS. from
which the text has been printed is destroyed by time.]
The king, after he had conquered Sindhu, Hinduvāṭ,
and other countries outside his dominion, went with his
army to conquer the Bhuṭṭa country. As soon as the
army had entered a forest, they saw with wonder, a
black skeleton of a man by the light of a lamp placed on
a wall. The wise men who had appreciated the king's
worth used to assert, that, by performing penances extend-
ing over a long period the king had attained emancipa-
tion, and had cast off his [former] body, as a serpent
casts off his skin. Their words were now proved ; or
how could the king know of hidden things if he had not
been a saint ?

CHAPTER I.

The description of the kingdom.

The king begat three sons, the eldest Ādamakhāna,
the second Hājyakhāna, and the youngest Vahrāmakhāna.
The eldest was handsome, and he pleased his father
by the natural grace of his person and by his appearance,
even as the moon pleases the sea. Hājyakhāna dis-