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

132 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
not a festive performance which he attended in which
he was not accompanied by Hājyakhāna. What man
does not admire Mahādeva, who is attended by his two
sons, the benefactor of the universe, who is in the en-
joyment of pleasures, and is surrounded by hundreds of
spirits beaming in the excess of their devotion, who
spends his time in listening to hymns accompanied
with dances, and who is the object of adoration, the
possessor of superhuman power, and the dweller of
Kailāsa ?
Here ends the third chapter of Jainarājatarangiṇī,
entitled the account of the banishment of Ādamakhāna
and alliance with Hājyakhāna.
CHAPTER IV.
In the meantime, Spring, the friend of Cupid,
passed away. What the moon is to lustful kumuda
flowers, what the sun, the dispeller of darkness which
is like woman's anger, is to blooming creepers, what
the beauty of budding youth is to women, that is
Spring to Cupid. At the Chaitra festival, the king em-
barked on a boat, accompanied by his son, and with a
view to enjoy the sport of flowers he went to Maḍava-
rājya. The line of the king's boats on the Vitastā
looked like the row of Indra's charriots on the milky
way. He started from Avantipura, and stopped at royal
palaces at Vijayesha and other places inorder to witness