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

138 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
the performance, and they were made happy by being
honored and clothed in silk. King Jaina saw the houses
and gardens, beheld his boat filled with flowers, and
after praising the inhabitants of Maḍavarājya, reached his
own capital.
Here ends the fourth chapter entitled the account
of the festivity of flowers, of Jainarājatarangiṇī.
CHAPTER V.
The king had his son by him and was at ease, and
being disposed to do good work, engaged himself in
excavating new canals and consecrating them. I have
not described those works of which the poet Shrī Jonarāja
has written in his book through fear of enlarging my
work. Surely there is but one city about the construc-
tion of which nothing is known. That city is Amarāvatī,
but the gods live not there, but wander about in aerial
chariots. This king has built hundreds of new cities
where the Brāhmaṇas live with dignity, and are like
Indra on earth. In Shrī Jainanagara, a new lofty
palace was built in the year 15 on the Devagaha [hill ?];
the king built a new palace near it of bricks and wood,
in the year 40 ; and the top of the palace was adorned by
a bright and beauteous golden dome, like a lotus thrown
down by the renowned Indra. Men were employed at the
gate of the palace, serving in various ways according to the