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

276 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
the dead body of her son who was aged twenty-four years,
and whom she had not seen for a long time ; she kept
the body for three days out of affection and then
performed the funeral rites. This widowed and chaste
mother of the prince, lady Sobāṇa, lived on barley meal,
and to the end of her life resided in the tomb of her
son. As if unable to bear the sight of the murder of
the prince and the massacre of the Saidas and of the
Dvijas, the sun departed to some other land, red in its
anger. The people saw the bodies of those great men
lie naked all around the palace, and none could give
them a piece of cloth to cover them. The frogs in the
tank croaked incessantly all night, as if they lamented
for the dead in their sorrow. Those handsome men
who had entered the palace, clad in fine garments,
causing darkness by the dust raised by their trotting
horses, were now sent out of it on two or three carts,
clad in torn clothes and bleeding. Thus in the year 60,
in the fourteenth day of the moon, in the month of
Vaishākha, ruin came upon the Saidas, and it was the
cause of future calamities. Surely Yama in the person
of Hasana appeared that year before the king's servants,
and from him these men received their death. Rather
let men be born in the house of a common man where
there are many afflictions, than in the house of a king.
Several common people sleep on one small piece of
coarse cloth, but two kings cannot find room in one
extensive kingdom.