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

262 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
praise is due to the practice of tying up animals and
shooting them with arrows ? Hunting is the vocation of
of the Kṣhatriyas, but since the beasts of game live
harmlessly on grass, it is not good that one should be
greatly addicted to it; for excess in everything is bad.
Killing and exterpating the deer in this manner, the
king at last reached the hill on the side of the Mahā-
padma lake. Sin was thus committed which will strike
terror into hunters in future times.
After hunting, the king returned to the capital,
suffering from diarrhœa. Some said that it was owing
to the sin committed in the pursuit of game that the
gods were angry, and it was while he was yet in the
hunting ground that the disease was first observed. Others
said that the Saidas, urged by a desire to obtain inde-
pendence and the kingdom, and instigated by the
Turuṣhkas, did something to the king to cause the illness.
Some again observed that owing to the king's separation
from his ministers his heart was filled with anxiety and
grief, and this gave rise to the illness. No one could
ascertain the real cause. While the king was in that
state of health he went to the district of Sarja on the
first day of the new year with the vain desire of killing
birds. As he was going in a boat, that day, a serpent
from Jainavāṭa vihāra crossed his way, and he killed it
with an arrow in order to allay his fear arising of this ill
omen. He thus removed the anxiety from his mind
but did not remove the illness from his body. A head