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

120 KINGS OF KASHMIRA.
earth from the sky, and indicating a famine in the future
from the failure of shāli rice. Not long after, heavy
clouds with the rainbow, and peals of loud thunder,
terrified the people, even like enemies with their arrows.
Bubbles appeared on the water, beaten by the rain, and
seemed like the heads of snakes intent on destroying
the crops ; and the clouds which raised the bubbles
threatened to destroy all that would grow. Everywhere
the rain fell on the leaves of trees, and the sound seemed
like the wailing of the trees at the calamity which was
about to overtake the people. The Vitastā, the Ledari,
the Sindhu, the Kṣhiptikā, and other rivers, seemed to vie
with one another, and drowned the villages on their
banks in their fury. The waves of those rivers, ran like
coursers, swift and tumultuous, and the roar of the
whirlpools rose above the waves. The waters then
became ungovernable and caused mischief, lowering
objects which were high, and lifting up things that were
low. Who taught them then to lift the earth from the
foot of the hills and to fell trees ? They swept away
beasts and kine and living beings, as well as houses, grain,
and other things, and became terrible as a host of the
Mlechchhas. The river Vishokā caused misery in
Maḍavarājya, and entered Vijayeshvara as if seeking to
walk round the shrine, and a line of houses soon fell into
the water as if to bathe in the river which flowed eastward,
to have their sins removed. The river Vishokā is celebrat-
ed in the Purāṇa as the destroyer of afflictions, but owing