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

308 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
cowards and foes. That chief among heroes, Saipha
Ḍāmara, had at one time been afraid of the prowess of
Jonarājanaka, and had yielded up his arms. Even
heroism fails at times. Jyāllala Ṭhakkura was shut up
by his own door keepers within the court-yard of the
palace. What means are left when fate becomes adverse?
Even the sun in the sky undergoes changes day by
day, becoming obscure sometimes and bright at other
times. What stability then can there be in the
strength of man who is subject to perplexities?
Strange are the vicissitudes of his power! Masoda
Ḍāmara and others, who had destroyed the bridge of
boats, collected an army as before at Jāladragaḍa.
Sāliya and other Ṭhakkuras were not attached to
Shṛingārasīpha; they went to him separately, but
were thrown into prison. No man's prosperity is
stable! Jerāka a bold servant of Shṛingārasīpha robbed
Ṭhakkura Āhlāda of his horses inside the city, and
went to Rājāpurī. Thus the crime of Jonarājanaka's
murder was aggravated by the imprisonment of his
warriors, even as one's unbearable sufferings from a
disease in the throat are aggravated if his foot is
burnt.
By the time a man gets over one anxiety, fate
creates another for him; when the moon has passed
through its period of wane and arrives at fulness,
eclipse comes in and destroys its beauty! When the
Mārgesha had become free from anxiety and without