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

fice, the celebrated khānagāha, where many travellers
come from various countries. To such an extent were
new buildings erected at Diddāmaṭhapura, that the
whole town became pleasing to the eye. The minister
invited the king on the occasion of the first entry into
the building, and spent sixty lakhs. He assigned the
village of Satipusha for the supply of food [ for travel-
lers]. Even his wife Shāhā built a maṭha for religious
purpose, on the road leading to Kherī, and gave alms
when it was completed. His son too, the minister
Nauruja, built a new religious maṭha, and constructed
a stone causeway from the town to the Kṣhiptikā ; and
when it was completed as far as the island in the
river, the people of the town ceased to wonder at the
sjght of a long causeway supported on pillars. The
two other brothers named Richaka and Nūthaka, who
were worthy of praise, built two maṭhas in Kramarājya,
beautiful as palaces. Tājibhaṭṭa, who had become rich
and great on account of the king's affection for him,
built a maṭha at Jainapurī in Karāla country, and erec-
ted a new edifice of stone at Kudmadīnapuri. Indra him-
self, on viewing these structures, would become desirous
of erecting edifices ! Edarājānaka, master of the royal
wardrobe, built a khānagāha at Balādyamaṭha, and a new
maṭha in his native land. The maṭha was built by the
side of the funeral ground, and was adorned with apart-
ments for the accommodation of wearied travellers.
He constructed rows of buildings ;—maṭha, agrahāra,