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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 129
tore up the bridge of boats, and crossed the river. As the
king went out of the city he saw citizens in the streets
with their feet burnt and suffering from the agony ;
and he heard them crying and lamenting thus :—"Fie
to the cruel man who instead of subduing foreign
countries oppressed his father’s dominion which he should
have protected. The vicious Shikhajāda and others
who accepted pay from both father aud son and harassed
the king are now suffering the punishment of their
treachery. The wicked planet saturn believed himself
to be as great a benefactor to men as the matchless sun,
and aspired to equal him ; but then the peerless sun
arese, brightening everything, and by his greatness des-
troyed those whose ways were tortuous. Ādamakhāna
has been deserted by his wicked followers who have
brought misery on their country and destruction on
the people, and he has also been deserted by fortune
and prosperity. The people survive other calamities
like excessive rain or drought, or the destruction of
crops by mice, locusts, or birds ; or even a foreign
invasion ; but let not the king have sons bent
on destruction or divided by mutual enmity ; or if
he has only one son, let it not be a wicked son
who causes misery. The two sons of the king, cruel
destroyers of the people, were to him even as the
rising of the Saturn and Yama is to the sun. Where
can such another king be found, lenient even to
those who caused trouble, forgiving to fallen enemies,