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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 195
ignorant and had caused pain to his father, not to speak
of the sin committed in rising against his father. While
the king was yet reigning, his son, forgetting the affection
due to his father, had come to bring affliction to the
country; that the prince might with his army speedily fall
like an insect in the fire of the king's valor, and the virtu-
ous king might reign without opposition, and his enemies,
defeated in battle, turn back. The king heard this and
more, and arrived with his army at a place named
Suprashamana.
Then when the armies of the father and son met at
Pallashilā, the king sent a Brāhmaṇa as messenger
to his son. But the messenger was for sometime sur-
rounded by the angry people who were anxious to know
his message, and they shouted and asked what the
Brāhmaṇa had to say. The messenger thus fearlessly
delivered the message of the king, "O prince! O
mighty armed! O! Sea of amṛita! Attend to what
your father orders which I speak unto you. 'The son
is to the family as the fruit is to the tree, he is the
benefactor in this as well as in the next world, and always
delights the eyes of the parents; by whom can such a
son be discarded? All people endeavour to provide for
their sons, since in old age an obedient son brings com-
fort and ease. You, who are born my son, are my stay
in this world and in the next; but now all my hopes
of ease have fled, and my anxiety has increased. The
protection which you are giving to the wicked men
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