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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 137
by his son and friends. The respectful Hājyakhāna
filled with the love of his father, as with amṛita, extolled
him thus, under the pretence of describing the spring.
"Like an expert actor, Spring the king of the seasons
teaches the humming black bee the art to sing, and
instructs the breeze the art to make the creepers dance.
O! king, who appreciates song, has the Spring come to
serve thee? The beauty of the stars is destroyed by
clouds covering the sky, and during the day they are invi-
sible; and even moon waxes and wanes. Humbled by
such mishaps, the stars have come to serve thee O! Lord
of men, in the shape of flowers in the garden. May the
flood which fills the country with mud, annoys the people
in the midst of their ease, and destroys roads, remain con-
fined to the basins of the lakes and beautify thy country.
The floods are disappearing through thy power at this
pleasant time of spring, this season of pleasure, even
like a city of snow at the rising of the sun." When
the king heard this he was glad, and gave Hājyakhāna
a matchless dagger of gold. The king bestowed lands
in the Ghosa country on those who served the prince.
These servants had once been repremanded, but now
they received silken clothes the emblem of favour, even
as men who falling into the waves of the Sindhu are
ferried across in a boat. The king shed tears of joy
for having got back his son; and showered gold on the
learned, the singers, and the servants. He paid the
travelling expenses of his subjects who came to witness