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

lions of dead are burnt on one cubit of land and the
land remains the same in extent. All these unworthy
censures have been passed in the course of this narration,
and they should be pardoned by the Mausulas, for the
words of the poet are not under his control.
Those who acquire wealth, even if as great as of a king,
by oppression, and do not spend any portion of it in
charity or in enjoyment, they by their sinfulness earn
misery which is the fruit of sin. All objects belonging to
such men depart from their houses and become the pro-
perty of the king, and their indigent relatives do not get
even a shell. The treasurer had amassed vessels of silver
filled with gold, and when the king saw them he spat on
the ground exclaiming, "Fie to the miser!" Every thing
which Vahmarāga and other partisans of the treasurer
had hoarded, was taken away, and with the exception of
Saida Hossana, they were all thrown into prison.
Others received the punishment of death from the king,
for the guilt of their father, even as the Kṣhatriyas did
of old from Parashurāma. The king remembered the
injury he had formerly received from the worthy and
able councillors of his father and got himself rid of
them. He remembered too the affection which Habhe-
bha and his five or six friends had borne towards him
and towards his father, as well as their services rendered
to him, and he maintained them in great dignity.
When Ādamakhāna at Pārgotsa heard the news of
the death of the treasurer, a message that bore the true
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