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

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APPENDIX A
Now by the direction of some holy men, Shri Malleka
Rájána Nujyaka, the celebrated lord of Siddha, related
what the people of this country and of other coun-
tries suffered from oppression, poverty, and panic. This
is what he said :—"When Jaina Sháha went to heaven,
the weak came to be oppressed by the strong, and the
foreigners were subjected to unjust penalties, and they left
the country. Then Shri Saiphadámarendra, the king's
minister, opposed bad laws and protected and cherished
the subjects. Thus the people were sometimes nourished
or sometimes drained according to the effects of
their virtue or vice, or according to the ministers' good
or evil disposition. Then Chakrapati Malleka Kánchana rose
like the sun, at the order of the king, and graced the
assembly of ministers. When this minister sat in the
palace, and employed himself in dispensing justice, the
weak, on account of his valour, displayed the vigour of the
strong. But calamities from the Muggulas, and death, and
famine occurred, when, owing to quarrel among the powerful
men, and owing to the sin of the subjects, Chakrapati went
out of the kingdom."
APPENDIX B.
As one forms from fancy the image of another whom he
has not seen, so Fate created a person named Várádama
for the creation of the world. He had the skill of perform-
ing difficult work, and he built eighteen thousand houses.
Then when this wide world had turned round thirty-six
times, seven beautiful Pigambaras, like the seven Rishis, were
born. The Pigambara Rasulohya, who was the chief and
protector of them all, was kind to men ; and though a
man, he had, by the will of Mahádeva, conquered the gods.
The Himálaya mountain is the best of all the gods' crea-
tion in heaven and in earth, and the country of Kashmira,
situated in it, is to the world what a necklace is to a woman.
This is the holy world of the good, the home of the bow-
men, the native place of the various trees and plants, and
the place for the enjoyment of all kinds of wealth. Here all