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

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really the cause, yet it is considered the strange cause
of events. It casts down, all of a sudden, some person
in high position, and prospers some who should be cast
down, even as the wind does with the trees. The
Khāna's intention was good, and if his soldiers had been
like him, what results might not have ensued ? For
victory follows virtue.
Thus in the year 61, in the month Shrāvaṇa, when
Phataha Khāna arrived in Kashmīra, many natives of
the country and foreigners perished, as in the
preceding year, by the meeting of the two armies
near Kalyāṇapura. Astrologers found three reasons
for this destruction of men in the country, the presence
of Saturn in the seventeenth mansion of the moon,
the conjunction Saturn with Jupiter, and the year
being presided over by Mars. In the reign of king
Shri Jaina, the subjects were devoted to the study of
the six schools of philosophy and were attached to
their own religion, they were fearless and did not
suffer from the six calamities.* But the customs of
the country were injuriously affected by the base acts
of the subjects when that king went to heaven, and so
the destruction of men came to pass. This is my
opinion. Some merchants, for instance, discarding
the custom which befits Hindus, killed a cow within
the city and ate its meat. Sons are now fond of the

• They are excess of rain, drought, destruction of crop by
  ats, locusts, and birds, and the approach of a foreign king.