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

8 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
The wife of Kshuksha became disgusted with him as
he, owing to old age, had lost his vigour ; and she killed
him by poison and received Bhīma to her embraces.
Owing to her intimacy with her husband's brother, her
body came to be marked with white patches ; but her
sin was lightened by her gifts to Mādhava and other
gods. The king after ruling the country for eighteen
years, and ten days died on the tenth lunar day of dark
moon, in the month of Māgha, in the year 74.
Then his son ShrīJagadeva, who was powerful,
yet humble, contributed, like the month of Chaitra,
to the delight of the people. He looked with an equal
eye on the servants of the state who had been contend-
ing with one another ; even as the evening finds the blue
and the white lotus alike. He was well versed in
science, and as a surgeon extracts a dart, he rooted out
the evil laws of the country. He was a person of great
merit, and penetrated like a dart in the mind of men ; but
evil counsels prevailed, and he was expelled from the
country by the ministers. As Rāma received his
friend, the king of the monkeys, in the wilderness, so
did he, in his exile, receive his discriminating minister,
Guṇāhula. In the hope of rising again to power,
the king and the minister came back to Kashmīra like
the sun and the moon, and the people wondered at
their deeds. Unwilling to relinquish the power they had
so long enjoyed, the enemies of the king prepared to
fight ; but they fell under the devices and the prowess