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

204 KINGS OF KASHMIRA.
king died because he had killed the chiefs of Sauṭāla
and other places after swearing good faith towards them
on the veda of the Mausulas, and inspired their confi-
dence, and also because he had killed those minis-
ters of his father who had placed the mark of
royalty on his forehead at his coronation. Surely
within a short time he melted away like a mass
of snow in the heat, on account of the curse of his
father and because of his many crimes. The prince
believed that there was no enemy within the city, and
entertaining no apprehensions, he carried his father's
body on a litter to the grave-yard. There he took out
the corpse from the coffin, and covered it with a single
piece of cloth, and placed it within the womb of the
earth at the feet of the deceased's father. All the people
considered the body as a handful of dust, looked at its
face, and threw a handful of dust on it. When the
hollow of the grave was filled, they placed over it a
stone of moderate height ; and it seemed to proclaim
to all men that the late king had a heart of stone in his
battles. His servants remembered the favours they had
received from their master, and they smote their breast,
and gave vent to loud lamentations, and wept. His
servants who had received favours from him thought
his short reign to be happy and glorious, as if they had
obtained the heaven in dream. The king had com-
posed a book of songs in the Persian language and in
the dialect of Hindusthāna, and who does not praise