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

220 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
the king was proceeding to his palace at Vijayeshvara,
the minister induced him to cause the Pratīhāra, who
did not mistrust the king, to be arrested within the
palace. Abhimanyu himself was known to fame, but
his sons Pāṇḍava and others were unworthy as jackals.
Fie to the uncertainties of fate ! If the lion did not in
his madness enter into a trap, who could ever overcome
that strong animal, at whose sight even large and powerful
elephants flee afar, followed by bees. Then the Pratī-
hāra, with his sons, was brought in a boat by Tājibhaṭṭa,
bound and bereft of his wealth, and thrown into prison.
Within a year his eyes were put out, even as he had
induced the king to put out the eyes of Bahrāmakhāna ;
and as Bahrāmakhāna had suffered intolerable pain, even
so did he suffer pain which others cannot describe.
On the same day and in the same month of the year
in which the Pratīhāra had done injury to the Khāna,
did he himself suffer injury. He too, with his sons, suf-
fered like Bahrāmakhāna for two years the tortures of hell,
and died in prison and in misery. The wicked Pratīhāra
had once remarked that his eyes were gratified at the
sight of the death of Jainarāja, the foe of his family, and
of the plunder of his property ; for these cruel words he
was now punished with the destruction of his own eyes ;
so the people observed. The grandson of Jainarāja ac-
complished with ease what that king had meditated but
could not do. The very means which a man adopts
for the injury of others lead to his own destruction.