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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 43
The queen ShriSamudrā was like the full blown
daughter of the sea, and she built within the city a
maṭha marked with her name, on the banks of the
Vitastā. The king reigned for twenty one years, one
month, and thirteen days, and died in the year 49.
His successor, Lakshmaṇadeva, filled with the lore
of the six branches of learning, supported with difficulty,
the weight of the kingdom. A Brāhmaṇa by birth, he
did not part with the qualifications of his own caste,
though he was made a Kshatriya. A painted stone
does not take the beauty of a jewel. Mahilā, his stain-
less queen, built a new maṭha, marked with her name,
on the banks of the Vitastā, by the side of her mother-
in-law's maṭha. The Kajjala, a dark and fierce Turu-
ṣhka came to Maṇḍala from outside, and destroyed
the king who was the eye of his subjects. He reigned
for thirteen years, three months, and twelve days, and
died at the end of the month of Pauṣha of the year 62.
Owing to the commotion caused by Kajjala, Siṁha-
deva became the king of Ladari only. He was harass-
ed by Saṁgrāmachandra, lord of Lahara. When
Saṁgrāmachandra died, Siṁhadeva, a lion among men,
ruled the kingdom reduced in size, and built a maṭha
within the city. The virtuous Siṁhadeva, during the
ascendency of the constellation Leo, associated him-
self with his religious preceptor and established an
image of Nṛisiṁha at Dhyānoddāra. The image set up,
and the king who set it up, the preceptor who helped