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

184 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
brother, who looked like the planets Venus and Jupiter
before the moon. The treasurer Hassana distributed
money, as ordered, and put the mark of royalty on the
forehead of the king with offerings of gold and flower.
As in the rainy season the clouds rule the world with
lightnings, even so did the king Hājyahaidhara govern the
country. The king’s youngest brother Bahrāmakhāna was
even like himself, and through affection, the king made
him lord of Sukṣhitī in the Nāgrāma country. It was after
a long time that the king met his son, and, overwhelmed
as he then was with sorrow for his father, he found even
greater comfort than what he had felt when he
was appointed heir-apparent of the kingdom. Āvaṭra,
Lavaka, and others found great favour with the king, and
were invested with authority in the kingdom. Other
servants also obtained favours from the new king and
obtained the gift of villages, good or indifferent, accord-
ing to their previous services. The king then parted
with the kings of Rājapurī and Sindhu who had come
to see him, after decking them with ornaments befitting
kings. In the king’s palace, ministers, feudatory kings,
captains of armies, and others, adorned with daggers of
gold, mingled in the rejoicings, and with them moved
the servants to whom were given valuable garments of
silk. The king, free from all vices, protected his people,
even like the waxing moon in her fortnightly career.
There lived one Merjā Hassana, son of Saida Nāsira,
and he was the chief of Bahurūpa and other provinces.