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

166 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
of which it is composed, and by its frame, by its sound,
and by its power of expansion." The engines, vying with
the thunder in their roar and their fire, were inscribed
with these lines, and they looked graceful.
In a short time Ādamakhāna returned after the con-
quest of Bhuṭṭa and Hājyakhāna went to the mountains
of Lohara under the orders of the king. The king knew that
two swords do not find room in the same scabbard, and
so he caused one of his two sons to go out and the other
to come into the country. Ādamakhāna bathed and
drank and played and engaged himself in amusements
every day before his father. The swan that lives at ease
in the Satī lake does not leave it in the rainy season till
he is struck dead by the fowler.
In the year 28 Hājyakhāna wished to return Kashmīra,
when Rāvatralavala thus spoke to him :— "O ! master !
the friends of your elder brother are enjoying the delights
of Kashmīra, we alone have left our home and are
pining in a foreign land. The powerful Rājānaka the
Pratīhāra, Kulaja the Mārgapati, and others who are
proud of their prowess are awaiting us in Kashmīra.
Even if you be disobedient to your father, will the merci-
ful king kill us all in his anger? Should Ādamakhāna
come out with his forces to fight, he will have to fly
before you, even like young birds before a hawk. The
people of Rājapurī wish us good, let us therefore go by
the way of Rājapurī. What can we not win through
courage? Now that Agira the Pratīhāra is dead there