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

202 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
and better in qualifications. Where is the place now for
conciliation in this world which the powerful is always
destined to enjoy ?" When he had said these unworthy
words, they left him. Bahrāmakhāna did not after this
expect to get the services of those with whom he used
to consult before, and to co-operate in the administration
of the country, and he therefore fell into despair. * *

• • When destruction is nigh men's intellect wanders
    the wrong way, even as the water in a tank does when
    the embankment gives way. If he had wisely dis-
    tinguished reasonable advice from unreasonable, if he
    had gone out and secured the horses which belonged
    to him, if he had killed his confiding nephew, and had
    taken possession of the treasury in his father's palace,
    or if he had gone out of the country and then return-
    ing to Kramarājya, had leisurely attacked the kingdom,
    then he would not have sustained the loss which ensued
    on account of his vacilation and the unreasonable
    advice of his childish and foolish servants. He might
    have secured every thing in good time; but owing to
    inexperience, alas ! what did he not lose ?
    Now the minister Ahmadamalla thought to himself
    that no one possessing intelligence should hold the
    kingdom from him for any length of time. He would
    rather give the kingdom to the ignorant son of the king
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