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

BOOK III.
I bow to Shiva who is the sole lord of the three
worlds, and who has attained the rank of an immortal
god and freedom from endless pain. That poet, the
lord of the yogis, who has given an account of the past
in his work is worthy at the present time to receive our
reverence.
I, Shrīvara paṇḍita, received the king's gift, which
was the means of my subsistence, and I will now nar-
rate the history of that king, and thus free myself of the
debt I owe him. I have witnessed the prosperity, the
misfortunes, and the death of kings with my own
eyes, and remembered the events; and this Rājataṟaṅ-
giṇī will create in all a feeling of indifference for this
world. Let good people attend to my account, not for
the sake of any merit in my poem, but for history of
the kingdom which it narrates, and let them by their
own intellect assimilate what they hear. This has been
composed, like the records of the Kāyasthas, for the
information of those who will come in the future, so
that other learned men, when they read this, may com-
pose elegant works.
King Hassana, whose mind was free from evil inten-
tion, left Shekandharapuri, the town of his father, and
went to the superior and finer city of Jainanagara built