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

148 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
lake for sometime, snow began to fall, as if the gods,
pleased with his piety, showered flowers on him. The
encircling snow on the lake might well be mistaken for
a portion of the peak of the Kailāsa hill which one attains
by bathing at the holy shrine. Truly the king was an
incarnation of Viṣhṇu, and he thrice walked round the
lake out of piety, and also to test his power of walking.
Then when the boat was fastened to the Naubandhana
hill, the hill became what its name implies, and the king
saw the hill and went to it. When journeying to the
Sukumāra lake, the king drank of the water of that lake
and meditated on the Sukumāra shrine, and he felt a de-
light as if he had obtained the purity of his soul. The
king heard the names of holy places, touched the auspi-
cious waters from the shrines, tasted the cool water, saw
the beauty of the forest trees, and scented the perfumes of
plants and flowers, and thus performed the pilgrimage
that gives pleasure to the five senses, and then returned
to his capital.
Here ends the fifth chapter, named the account of the
pilgrimage to Krama lake, of Jainarājataraṅgiṇī.
CHAPTER VI.
Inorder to satisfy his longing for the Krama lake,
the king caused a new lake, like the Krama lake, to be
excavated within Padmapura, and called it the Jaina
lake. It was the time of autumn when the land was