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

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who was benevolent to men, accessible, meritorious, and
liberal, the king who knew the literature of many lan-
guages, who was favourable to the men of merit, and
untiring in work of kindness and of virtue,—that king,
alas ! is now laid on the ground. Fie to us, sinful and
depraved in our hearts ! Overcome by the love of the
world, we still live therein, and do not fly to the wilder-
ness in sorrow. As the bosom of a woman does not
look graceful without a necklace, nor the intellect
without learning, nor the expanded lotus flowers without
the sun, nor the human body without youth, nor the
night without the moon, nor a wife without her husband,
even so the kingdom of Kashmīra did not look graceful
without its king. Good men felt sorrowful at heart, and
found no rest ; and they always lamented and said that
king Shrī Jainollābhadena was the greatest among all
sovereigns, that he was versed in all learning and loved
the study of logic and other branches of knowledge,
and that he consequently shone in the glory of the
learned. He was distinguished by his desire to see
learned men collected around him, and by his wish
to bestow gifts and honors on them, as well as by
his well deserved fame. They said that he had consoli-
dated Kashmīra, and had gone as if to consolidate
heaven which was in a state of confusion. The royal
family, like a bamboo group in a garden, decked by
variagated grass and a profusion of leaves, was an
object of beauty for a long time ; but alas ! domestic
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