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

178 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
thyself to me, be thou angry or propitious. I am un-
able to bear this death-like pain of separation. O father!
Where hast thou gone leaving me, thy servant, behind;
the lotus bud does not expand without the sun. Art
thou angry O king? I am thy servant bent on serving
thee; and in consideration of my excessive solicitude
speak but one word to me, for without thee I shall not
live."
Thus the prince lamented, and performed the rites
of the bhujā night; he gazed on the face of the king for
a long time and wept aloud. Thus loudly lamenting,
Hājyakhāna was overcome with grief, and when the day
declined the ministers forcibly took him to the palace.
For the benefit of his deceased father, the son, while yet
he was on the burial ground, gave away his own village
of Sālora for the supply of drinking water to the people in
the hot season; and for the services of those who pro-
vided the water, he permanently endowed lands in that
village and allotted them for a religious purpose. At this
time the sun, as if unable to look upon the earth without
a king, set in the sea; and the earth casting away her gar-
ment of evening cloud, spread the gloom of the evening
which was even like her dishevelled hair to weep in sorrow
for the king. A darkness prevailed in the kingdom at
the death of the king. He had raised high hopes in
men, he was of princely appearance, and a friend of the
men of merit. No one cooked his food that day, no
smoke arose from the houses, all were dumb with grief