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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 147
of many colors, even like a garden full of flowers.
Vāndarapāla and other chiefs with their armies were glad
to see the king. The sky was beautified by Venus
and Mercury, and was full of other stars by night, and
the ground was graced by poets and learned men, and
shone with rows of lamps, so that the sky and the earth
vied with each other. The pleasant earth was lighted
on the day of the dark moon by the moon-like faces of the
hundreds of citizens who had assembled. There a tree of
lamps was borne by a man and it looked like the Pleiades
risen in the midst of the stars. The king accompanied by.
his two sons left Vijayesha, and reached Durmārga on foot
in three days. Wearing a noble appearance in his piety,
he saw Viṣhṇu's foot mark at the Krama lake, and felt
the joy of bowing at the feet of Viṣhṇu. The waters
from the hills of Brahmā, Viṣhṇu, and Mahādeva seemed
by their sound to enquire after the welfare of the king
who was a part of Mahā deva. The great king saw the
hill and the land darkened by the flowers of the kastūrī,
and was rejoiced like anchorites when they view the
longed for person of Nārāyaṇa. He then embarked on
a boat surrounded by five or six boatmen, and went about
in the lake supporting himself on me and Simhabhaṭṭa.
From me he heard the songs of Gīta Govinda, and then
arose in his mind a feeling of piety towards Govinda,
The sweet sound of our songs was echoed from the groves,
as if celestial musicians sang after us from the groves in
honor of the king. After he had wandered about on the
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