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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 179
and breathless. Such was the state of the capital which
seemed to be without life.
A long crystal stone was placed in the grave-yard,
it was the highest among those that were there, and
was like the figure of the king in a recumbent position,
and it was illumined with verses. Men came to see
the place out of curiosity and they lamented and shed
tears on the king, which looked like offerings of pearls. It
was Friday when the citizens went to the grave-yard, and
their images were beautifully reflected on the stone, as if
the king out of curiosity had drawn them near to him.
The people remembered the king's breast broad as door
pannel, his face beautiful as the full moon, the tip of his
long nose like the beak of the Suka bird, the eyes tender
as the lotus, his hairy eye-brows and forehead bright
with auspicious signs, and his intellect and his quali-
fications, and his attention to kingly duties. All these
came to their mind as if they were standing before the
the king himself; and they spoke lightly of the world,
as devoid of worth and substance. If the moon beams
of the full moon, the beauty of the flowers of spring,
the purity of the autumnal sky, the budding youth of
women, and the rule of a wise king,—all these that afford
happiness to men,—were made lasting by fate, men would
not long for heaven. In his boyhood, the king lost his
father, and apprehended mischief from the principal
minister, and was involved in a quarrel with his brothers
and servants. He was living in foreign countries when