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

228 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
bodies when they died, and even these they left behind.
And thus if he who had become rich, fails to
perform acts of piety by consecrating buildings, he too
will have to depart alone when he dies. It is con-
siderations like these which incline virtuous men towards
pious works. When the king became angry with
wicked men, he destroyed them but not their buildings.
In former times, the houses of those who rose against
the king were demolished. The fear of such punishment
however left the minds of the wealthy in this reign.
What more need be said ? Trees were cut down for build-
ing houses, so that woods were laid bare even like an
enemy's country.
The king found that the dinnāras of ShrīToramāna
had ceased to be current, and he gave currency to the
new coin, Dvitīnnārī, which was impressed with the
figure of a nāga. The old copper coin was twenty-five*
[in value], but owing to the dearness of articles its value
had become somewhat reduced.
The mother of pearl, which rears pearls out of water
from the clouds, is worthy of being placed on the head
of kings. But when men take out the pearls, the objects
of her affection, it, like a good woman, does not survive
long. Golkhātonā, the king's mother died suddenly ;
she had during his infancy reared him with her milk.
She had opposed the king when he began to form ir-
regular habits, and restrained his wavering heart
even as the sea shore always restrains the sea. She

• Probably twenty-five gandas or one hundred Cowri shells are
  meant.