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

of the king and his minister, even as the insects fall in-
to the fire. The king conquered the country and enjoy-
ed the fortune that smiled on him and the royal um-
brella and the Chāmara; and ShrīGuṇākararāhula
also enjoyed prosperity, without these royal insignia.
The disinterested king built a temple at Rajjupura and
adorned it with a silver umbrella. Then the wicked
Padma, lord of Dvāra, pretending- affection for the
king, as if he were a friend, secretly gave him poison
and killed him. After ruling the country for fourteen
years, six months, and three days, the king died on the
fourteenth day of the dark moon, in the month of
Chaitra, in the year 89.
His son Rājadeva had gone to Kāṣhṭhavāṭa in fear,
but he was brought back by the enemies of the lord
of Dvāra. And when Rājadeva had entered a fort
named Salhaṇa, Padma, of wicked design, surrounded
him with troops, even as a serpent is surrounded by a
magic line. The lord of Dvāra had in the meantime
received a present of a curious pair of shoes, and in his
curiosity to see it he was off his guard, and was killed
by a Chaṇḍāla in a scuffle. Then the Bhaṭṭas annoint-
ed Rājadeva king, with the sound of kettle drum and
conch shell, and innumerable feudatory chiefs bow-
ed to him, and he bestowed favours on servants. The
great king apportioned work among the chief men of
the Lavanyas in the same manner as before, and they
worked like relatives living together.