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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 115
and accused himself as the cause of the mischief. Thus
he reflected, and blamed the servants who by the work
of Fate had become his enemies, and he returned to his
own city in grief. The king caused the heads of the
great warriors who had fallen in battle to be brought, and
over them he built a beautiful edifice in the town. In
this way many warriors lost their lives in battle that
year, in the quarrel between the father and the son,
owing to the wickedness of the servants. Dissensions
among kindred are like a curse, and are as little con-
ducive to the king’s happiness as the fall of snow is to
the full blown lotuses, or as the dreadful comet, the
destroyer of wicked men, is to an ill fated kingdom. O
king Shrī · Mānasimha* ! the letters of your name are as
potent as the five arrows of Kandarpa towards women,
or like the five vital fires to friends, or like the five sons
of Pāṇḍu to the enemies, or like the five celestial trees
to the poets and the learned.
Here ends the first chapter named the account of the
battle of Mallashīlā of Jainarājatarangiṇī composed by
Paṇḍita Shrīvara.
CHAPTER II.
Owing to the wickedness of the younger son, the
strong and pure stream of the king’s affection now flowed

• This name and the concluding lines are inexplicable here,
  probably inserted by mistake in the text from some other place.