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

176 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
face. After death his body became a corpse and he
became a Shiva. Such was the king that was borne on
a litter and, adorned with umbrella and chāmara, was
brought by the weeping ministers to the burial ground,
where the previous kings looked beautiful as in sleep,
and the earth, as if out of affection for her lords, had
received them in her bosom. All sides resounded with
the loud lamentation of the sorrowing citizens as if
with the noise of sounding brass. Within the city
no other voice was heard than the cry of "O king !
O life of the people ! Where art thou going, leaving thy
subjects behind." The ears of the men were incessantly
filled with these cries, so that they sometimes seemed to
hear the cries in the air. The king was then lifted from
the litter which had been borne on men's shoulders,
and was covered with cloth, and laid within the bowels
of the earth beside his father. The people looked on
the face of the king with tearful eyes, and, as required by
their rites, they threw a handful of earth on him; as if
to indicate that there would be no other king like him,
and that the world was ruined by his death. Monarchs
who had conquered powerful enemies in battle, had
covered the earth with riches, and had given wealth
to all; who had built cities named after them, and
were well known in other countries; who had long reign-
ed in the country possessed of the seven component
parts of royalty, leave all behind in the end, and
receive only the winding sheet for their portion. Scorched