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

that year, and caste rules were not strictly observed, and
the presiding goddess of the city was exiled from her
house ; hence the whole year proved destructive to
houses. Or was it that the righteousness of the righteous
builders having wasted away, Fate gave an opportunity
to new builders to rise to fame ? The area of the great
building which was burnt down was filled by the king
with new buildings and it looked graceful again, as if
the king’s righteousness manifested itself. The town
that had been burnt down was renewed within a short
time, and the new town was like a young wife to the
youthful king.
If the king’s addiction to evil habits can cause
ruin to this land of snow, the iniquity arising from
mutual jealousies of the great ministers is also capable
of destroying the whole kingdom in a moment.
A kingdom where the seven conditions* are favour-
able, expands in strength and becomes prosperous.
But if in such a kingdom mutual jealousies exist
among the principal ministers, then, it melts away
within a short time, even as the body withers when
attacked by three diseases. The authorities should
guard against such mutual jealousies and then they
need not fear a foreign foe, even as atheist fears no
God. Ministers who violate the above maxim of king
Lalitāditya and excite mutual jealousies perish. It was
on account of the quarrel amongst Malaēsa, Kadaryyā-

• See foot note at page 159.