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

104 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
played his greatness in his daily boyish pastimes, even as
the camphor indicates its nature by its sweet scent. The
two boys were beloved of their parents, and the happy
king left them in charge of two Ṭhakkuras, the sons of
his nurse, inorder to be brought up. The two Ṭhakkuras,
sons of the nurse, knew how to serve their own interests
and to damage their opponents ; and they became to each
other like the two disputants in logic. They cut the stem
of the tree of brotherly affection, and, owing to their
mutual envy, became envious of the princes; and the
three worthy sons of the king grew up in mutual enmity
caused by the Ṭhakkuras. The country was like a
body of which the king was the soul, when the king
felt happy all others felt happy, and when he felt miser-
able all others felt miserable. It was owing to the
wicked policy of the ministers that the princes felt angry
with each other, and the elder and the younger did not
perform their mutual duties.
Once on a time the king heard of the enmity
which his sons bore against one another, and he ordered
Ādamakhāna to prepare himself for departure without
delay to a foreign country. "O! bad son" he said "if
you do not act according to my reasonable command,
difficulties will arise which will destroy your dignity, life,
and wealth." When he had heard these words of his father,
the prince said to his servants that he would go to
Parṇotsa where they would always live in happiness.
They replied that his brother was of magnanimous mind,