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

156 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
kept in this place on bhūrja leaves were all reduced
to ashes, together with the cases that contained them.
At this place the king had caused an edict to be inscrib-
ed on a copper plate to the effect that at this shrine of
Jainagiri, future kings should take one seventh of the
crop that grew as tribute. It ran thus :—“Shri Jai-
nallāvadīna begs future kings to take one seventh
of the produce of the land which he by his money has
cleared and brought under cultivation at Jainagiri.
He has descended into water and ascended hills in-
order to build this high place which is like the banner
of virtue, and which they by their good will should en-
large.” These happy sentences were inscribed by Srī-
vakāshīsha on a copper plate which was not destroyed
by the fire, neither did the fire destroy the palace though
it was in the midst of the flame that rose high even like
the virtue of the king. When the wise king heard
that the town was burnt, his heart was burnt with sorrow,
but he rebuilt it without delay, new and beautiful, with
houses made of wood. The king had previously built
a palace at Varāhamūla, but he caused the materials to be
brought from that place, and built a new large one here.
There was in it a room for keeping the records of the king-
dom. A swinging bridge was also newly constructed, and
it looked like the necklace of the goddess of fortune which
presided over Kramarājya. Thus was the beauteous
Svayyapura built. There was the swinging bridge with
the rows of houses like jewels, and in the midst of them