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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 417
the lotuses on which the black-bees move busily about.
But there alas ! the snow gives constant trouble, and as
if pretending to feel cold, the women, with their both
hands trembling before their husbands, express their
love." The other ministers then thus said to the sove-
reign of the world :—" O emperor ! the glories of Kash-
mīra are innumerable. There the glorious morning, noon,
and evening indicate themselves by the ebb and flow
of water*. There is the celebrated god Amareshvara,
the living snow which grows and diminishes in the bright
and the dark fortnights. There is the glorious living fire
which remains always ablaze, which requires no fuel, and
leaves no charcoal behind."†
When king Jyallāladīna heard of the excellencies of
Kashmīra, he issued from the city of Lāhora in order
to see that country ; and on the fifth bright lunar day
of Āshāḍha, arrived with his army in the capital of
Kashmīra. On the seventh bright lunar day of that
month he pleased the Brāhmaṇa boys with gifts of gold,
and they blessed him. He then went to Mārttaṇḍa, and
gave cows adorned with pearls and gold to Brāhmaṇas.
He was glad to see Kashmīra with its vines, and walnut
trees, and high and charming woods of tāli trees. He stood
on the banks of the Vitastā and saw the position of the
city and was greatly astonished. He saw the tank near

• There is a small water-course near Srinagara in which the
  depth of the water varies during the different hours of the day.
  † Some gas-spring like the one at Jwalamukhi.