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

108 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
humane, and worthy of him, and it is on account of
this happy circumstance that his sons are prospering.
He is your father and you his son, and we all are your
servants. If you go and fight against him how can we
gain a victory? The king has many servants, and if
some of them perish, his loss will be little, if the Gaḍura
bird loses a plume, is his speed impeded? There is no
auspicious omen in our favour; the country of Kashmīra
is mountainous and difficult of access; and the king is
your father; for these reasons we should avoid a war
now. Let the king rule over the interior of the country,
and let us rule over the outer country; what blessings
have you not got here by his favour except the royal
umbrella? If they come to fight us here, they will not
be able to conquer us, and if we go into the interior we
shall never be able to overcome them" The Khāna how-
ever, instigated by the wicked, and in his own pride,
set out by the Sūrapura road, in spite of this advice,
and keeping Rājapurī before him, came to Kashmīra.
The king in the meantime had heard of the sudden
arrival of his son, and had taken his army with him, and
he soon issued out of the capital. While marching
with the army, the king felt certain that he would die, and
caused this verse to be read :—"The thought of war and
peace always creates alarm; and when such alarm is
caused by ones own son, his happiness is at an end." As
the king marched, he heard blessings of men in villages,
and people said that the son was under the coutrol of the