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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 423
maṇas, and they looked graceful, even as the forest,
that had been burnt by fire, does when the clouds
begin to rain. Āditya knew well how to serve king
Jyallāladīna ; he was always employed by the king in
distributing lands ; but being blind on account of his
affection for his relatives, Āditya overlooked such men
of merit as were his enemies, and prospered such men
without merit as were of his own party. As the nectar
rose from the sea churned by a hill, even so the gifts of
land issued from the king's palace moved by the words
of Rāmadāsa. But alas ! Āditya, like Rāhu, disap-
pointed the learned men, and gladdened his wicked
daitya-like friends by gifts of land. Jyallāladīna himself
was a sea of kindness, and he satisfied the mendicants
by his gifts of gold and silver.
The emperor then ordered Shikhāphaija to take one
thousand pieces of silver and to distribute them among
Brāhmaṇas and beggars who dwelt in villages and in
woods and in other places.*
King Jyallāladīna then bestowed the country again
on Yosobha Khāna, and went away. The people
felt happy when Yosobha Khāna took possession of the
kingdom, even as the lotuses are, when the sun ascends
the eastern hill. An annual payment was fixed from
the cultivators in every village, and soldiers were
forbidden from entering it, lest they create disturbances

• The portion translated in this para : is in prose and within
  square brackets in the text.