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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 175

was owing to the misfortune of his subjects and for the
affliction of all, that the king, shorn of his beauty and
suffering from malady, appeared like the sun about to
set at the end of the kalpa. By the quivering of his
lips it was known that he was praying, and he expired
at noon on Friday, on the twelfth day of the moon, in
the month of Jaiṣhṭha. At the time of his death, Fortune
seemed to abandon all his limbs and appeared on his
face, and I saw him in that state. His face methought
was the dwelling place of the goddess of Fortune, and
perspiration issued from it, even like a stream of good
luck. His breath left him, taking his life with it, and
as if afraid of having stolen that jewel. After life had
departed, tears still issued from his eyes, as if his eyes
which were like the sun and the moon melted away and
his affection for his subjects trickled down.
King Shri Jaina reigned happily for fifty-two years,
and went to heaven in the year 46. The corpse was
placed in a litter and was borne on men's shoulders,
and on it were placed the umbrella and the chāmara,
and they looked like the sun and the moon dropped from
the sky in their sorrow. At that time the ministers,
servants, slaves, and citizens offered oblation to the dead
in tears of lamentation. The king had obtained the
kingdom in the month of Jaiṣhṭha in the year 96 ; and
the period of the sun's course towards the north ended
with him. He had counted sixty-nine years, and the
beauty of the flowing black beard was still seen on his