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

214 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
to thee by God. Virtue, owing to good fortune, has
borne fruit unto thee. What more need be said ? Order
speedily what should be done to Bahrāmakhāna." When
the king heard this he was glad and gave rewards to the
messengers.
All the army were the next day pleased with the
music of victory, and they brought Bahrāmakhāna, and
his son, surrounded by troops, before the king. The
king went to the top of his palace in order to welcome
his soldiers proud of their victory, and for a while be-
held from a distance his uncle in his miserable plight.
He saw his uncle in the midst of the garrulous citizens
talking in high or low voice, his head bent down in
shame and fear, as if he sought for a hole in the ground
to conceal himself. He was bereft of ornaments which
had been robbed by the soldiers at the time of battle,
and was covered with an worn out garment which had
been given to him by some humble and kind hearted
man. His turban was soiled with blood from the wound
caused by an arrow in his face, and he was favoured by
the goddess of misfortune. The citizens saw Bahrāma-
khāna with his son bound before the king who was
favoured by good fortune, and Bahrāmakhāna's heart
was sore. Whose prosperity can be permanent ? Those
whose intellect is warped by covetousness are deceived
by prosperity, they lose the sense of right and wrong, and
are unable to rid themselves of the lust of prosperity which
they have once enjoyed, until it is forced from them by