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

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loud lamentation with tears in their eyes and said that
the king had seen the buffalo of Yama,* and would go to
heaven that very day. The king's voice stopped, his eyes
watered and rolled, and on that very night he was on
the point of death. In the year 60, on the ninth day of
the dark moon, in the month of Vaishākha, the king
went to heaven after having reigned for twelve years
and five days.
The whole night resounded with the cries of the
people, and in the morning all the Saidas with their
servants placed the body on a conveyance, and, with
umbrella and chāmara, conveyed it to the ancestral
burial ground. The people were not so grieved at the
death of Shri Jaina as at the death of this king, for they
were now left without protection. The ministers laid
the king, with his turban and belt and bright cap, on a
stone within the cavern, and covered the body with
cloth ; and the people were anxious to see him. They
thought of the king, and fancied that he was merely
sleeping within the cavern. For seven days the Saidas
came there in the morning, and read their own Vedas,
mingling their perusal with cries of lamentation. Those
who are attached to this world and enjoy youth and
prosperity, and who yield themselves to the love of
women, to enjoyments and drinking, they all pass away
in a few days, bereft of every-thing, and grieved and

• An omen of approaching death. Buffalo is the animal on
  which Yama rides.
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