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

136 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
before the king. We sang songs in twelve different
modes, in the court, and as the sound arose from the
string, the voices accorded with it harmoniously, as if
in joy. Paṇḍita Utthasoma versed in vernacular and
Saṁskṛita literature, composed a life of Jaina in the
vernacular, and approached the king. Yodhabhaṭṭa,
a poet in the vernacular language, composed a drama,
pure like a mirror, called the Jainaprakāsha, in which
he gave an account of the king. Bhaṭṭāvatāra who had
perused the Shāhnāmā, vast as the sea, composed a
work named Jainavilāsa, as the counterpart of the
king’s “Instructions.” The king was pleased, and caused
the lute, the gourd instrument, the ravāva, and all
other instruments of music to be set with gold, silver,
and jewels, and they looked very handsome. When
the people saw the stage effulgent with decorations and
beheld the play distinguished by the excellence of sense,
gestures, and feelings, they called the stage a four faced
god. Thus it was that the king who was possessed of
the three cardinal virtues, whose fame was spread over
the three worlds, and who like the gods was subject only
to three stages of life [not to old age], spent the three
watches of the night in witnessing the three kinds of
dance.
The king repaired to a house bedecked with jas-
mine flowers, and full of merriment and laughter, even
as a full moon appears in the sky bedecked with stars;
and he began to drink from stainless vessels, attended