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

116 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
towards the elder. He now won the affection of the king,
enjoyed good fortune, and had his councillors, and shone
owing to the absence of the heroic prince from whom
much was expected. After a long time the king returned
to the capital, and made over to Ādamakhāna a few of
the adherents of his younger brother who were at
Kramarājya. Ādamakhāna appropriated all the wealth of
Hājyehaidharakhāna which was in the house, or in
villages, or in the temples of gods, even as the sub-
marine fire consumes the water. From that time the
elder brother remained at ease in Kashmīra, in the pre-
sence of the king, as heir-apparent, and spent five years,
enjoying the dignity of kings.
Fate augments the happiness of men by increas-
ing the crops, and Fate also brings calamity to them
in the shape of famine. The clouds that make the
grass grow by rain, also destroy it by the weight of
snow. The country was rich in crops, when in the
year 36, in the month of Chaitra, the sky suddenly rained
dust.* It is well known from the Mahābhārata that the
year 36 [of a preceding century] had become terrible to all
on account of the destruction of the race of Yadu. The
leaves and the flowers hung down, grey with dust, as if
sorrowing for the people threatened with famine. The
chief of the soothsayers was consulted by the king, and

• The translator witnessed a dust-rain at Jammu, during the
  winter of 1885-86.