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

by a hostile country, as by a forest fire, the deceased king
enjoyed the sleep of ease in the cool interior of the
grave-yard.
Hājyakhāna saw the face of his father graced by
fortune, and appearing as if in sleep, and for seven nights
he performed the rite of mastaka. He exclaimed:—"O
father! Bent on wickedness I have many a time trans-
gressed against thee, and methinks you have left me in
your anger, and have gone to heaven alone. Admirable
is king Shekandhara who is in heaven and now beholds
thee. Fie to me O king! that I am deprived of the sight
of thee. No where O father! at the time of festivity did
you enjoy yourself without me; how then do you now
enjoy the pleasures of heaven alone? You could not
obtain sleep on a soft bed and surrounded by men, how
can you now sleep on the gravel in the midst of those
buried in the earth? When I left you and returned to my
house, who did not curse me in anger saying that we
two might not speak to each other again? We wicked
sons always kept you sleepless, and art thou now having
thy long sleep? O king! Your person was consumed
with ever present anxiety; has that anxiety of yours been
now transferred to another? O father! I see thy face in
the portrait and in my imagination, but where shall I,
who have so much sinned against thee, hear thy voice?
Without thee O master! my kingdom is a thing of
danger to me, the day is night, the good garden is a
cemetery, and life is death. Come O father! and show