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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 123
to laugh at Jayāpīḍapura where the houses and fields
were mouldering in decay. The wise who saw the new
city remarked that the king in his search for the
way into the nether world must have come across the
city of Maya the Asura. The beautiful water from the
river surrounded the city and flowed by its gate, white
as lime, and seemed to laugh at the city of Dvārikā in
the pride of its beauty. It was here that the king, on
the anniversary of his birth day, marked Jayasiṁha of
Rājapurī, with the symbol of royalty. The king who
loved the Brāhmaṇas was pleased with the services
rendered by Jayasiṁha, and as he sat here, he gave
Jayasiṁha the charge of the beautiful kingdom of
Rājapurī. In this same year the king showered gold
in the court-yard of the palace where all the songs of
Kashmīra and of the Kāshya countries were chanted. In
the neighbourhood of this city, a servant of the king
named Helāla killed a mad elephant, and the king built a
small town called Helālapura, inorder to commemorate
the deed.
Within Jayāpīḍapura, the king erected a high seat
of stone, and he built a beautiful palace by the side
of a tank, and having drained off water from the tank
which had been submerged by the inundation, the wise
king built rows of houses for royal offices, befitting
his palace. Every year, on the day of Nāgayātrā, and
during the festivity of Gaṇachakra, the king fed the
devotees here for five days. He made tanks here which