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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 121
to the misfortunes of the people it belied its name. The
buildings in the city drowned themselves in the water,
as if to avoid the sight of the distress of those who had
raised them. The king had built a flaghouse on the
Vitastā made of stone and wood, and consisting of four
towers, and it served as a bridge to the people who came
to visit him from the villages of Darad, even as the four
steps of virtue serve to ferry men over hell. But owing
to the rush of water over the bank of the river, the portion
of the building which was on the side of the town was
destroyed, and only the columns remained and the two
towers like two legs, as if to call on future kings to
complete the other two. In Kramarājya, the Mahānap
lake caused sufferings to people by its waves, and its
water rushed within Durgapura. The edifices in the town
witnessed this from a distance, and apprehended that
some other lake had come on a joyous visit to the
Padmanāga lake; and they threw themselves into the
water, fearing to be beaten down like trees by the waves.
The Vitastā, far away from her lord the ocean, was
alarmed at this intrusion, turned in her course, and
flowed in an opposite direction. Landmarks were sub-
merged, roads were destroyed, and the land was full of
water and polluted with mud, even as Kaliyuga is polluted
with apprehensions. At the time when Indra thus poured
torrents of rain, the king was filled with anxiety, on ac-
count of excessive water, and set out in a boat. His soul
was full of kindness towards men; and he wandered
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