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

174 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
killed many men in his anger, and their corpses were
heaped in the caverns of the mountain. In the mean-
time prince Hassanakhāna, resplendent with many virtues,
soon passed over Parpotsa and came within Kashmira.
The tree growing on barren soil is dried up by the heat
of summer, and becomes sapless, and casts no shadow,
and is forsaken by travellers ; but when nourished by
the copious waters of the rainy season it is decked with
flowers, it shelters men from the heat, and becomes en-
joyable. As a river is equally accessible from both its
banks, even so the kingdom was hitherto accessible to
the two belligerents, but now it became favourable to one
party. Thus by the conduct of the two brothers, vic-
tories and defeats were brought about by fate in a way
which the people had not anticipated. Who does not
wish for a son ? And when a son is born, who does not
feel both happiness and anxiety on his account, and
does not strive by various means to bring up the child ?
But alas ! when the child is grown up, he seeks through
his avarice to obtain his father's wealth, and is even
anxious for the time when the father would die, and
considers him as a hinderance in his way.
At this time the king, surrounded by a few servants,
remained without any anxiety, as if he had not heard
of the reports which had reached him. He gave out
that owing to illness his voice had failed and he had
lost the power of deglutition. His beauty was gone,
and he became like the moon when near its end. It