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

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the Pigambaras lived together in the Pigambara house, and
prayed to their god to quench the fire of the city consumed
by evil deeds, even as by a forest fire, with the water of their
good acts.
APPENDIX C.
The good country of Kashmíra is adorned by the vedas
with their six angas, and the vedántas, and the well
arranged siddhántas, by logic and grammar, by the
puránas, by the mantras, and by the six schools of philo-
sophy; by the followers of Shiva and of Vishnu, by the
worshippers of the sun, by the Buddhists with their paintings
and viháras and mathas; by the vine, and the saffron, the
grains, and the sháli rice, and by fragrant flowers; by the
puránas, and the shrutis and the tarkashástras; by the
Brahmaná worshippers of fire, and by the Bráhmanas devoted
to contemplation, austerities, prayers, and anxious for ablu-
tion and worship; by kotis of nágas, by Hari and Hara; and
by the Gandharvvas and the Vidyádharas. Here the water
is cool like the amrita of heaven. In this country there
are forty-five images of Mahádeva, sixty of Vishnu, three
of Brahmá, and twenty-two of Shakti which are well known;
they have neither beginning nor end; and there are Níla and
other serpents seven hundred in number, and fourteen kotis
of good men who live in shrines.
The hero Arjjuna, brother of Yudhishthira, was the leader
of eighteen armies at Hastinápura. After he had conquered
the whole world he feared that his valour would rust, so he
went to the nether world. There he soon conquered the cities
of the Nágas and desisted from making further wars. He ob-
tained the daughter of the Nága and there spent a year in
enjoyment. Long time elapsed after his return from the nether
world, and he again set out for the conquest of foreign coun-
tries; but was killed in a battle by his own son. When how-
ever his wife came to know of this, she soon brought him
back to life; he was glad to see the prowess of his son, and
he returned with him to Hastinápura. Now in the
course of time Arjjuna was taken away from the world,
and his two sons Parikshit and Vabruváhana divided the
whole kingdom between themselves, and kept posses-