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

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sion of it. After Vabruváhana had lived for one hun-
dred and fifty years, he left, during the performance
of a yajna, his eighty-four heroic sons and thousands of
their sons, turned a devotee, and went back to the house
of his mother's father. Those he left behind became almost
mad with excess of strength, quarrelled among them-
selves, oppressed the people, and. went to excesses. Proud
on account of their strength, they were cursed by their
father for disobedience, and for their own destruction they
oppressed their subjects by means of soldiers.
Now some merciful saint was passing along the sky, he
saw the oppression of the people, and soon brought it to the
notice of the Great Being. Then the voice of a being
without form was heard from the sky, saying :—"There
is a person in the midst of the sea, he is like Yama and
holds a sword." Then the saint brought that person who
was brought up in Roma country. He rode upon a horse,
and it was by his sword that the oppression was re-
moved This personage, this great king, this conqueror of
all living things was surrounded by his friends and com-
panions, but was not seen by any. The Creator brings
about the births and deaths of those whom he creates for
some incomparable and extraordinary end, and in an
extraordinary manner. Fo example, who knows whence
the sun, which gives light to the three `worlds, rises, or
where it sets.
Pártha was born in the family of this person, but having
incurred the anger of his father, he went to a distant place
and built Gahvarapura in the Panchagahvara country. Kuru
Sháha was born in the family of Pártha ; he conquered the
whole of the north and of the west, and built an auspicious
temple named Dhanus. His son Táhirála was graced with
three eyes, and had the peculiar virtue of getting whatever
he wished for. He was devoid of avarice, and he knew the
past, the present, and the future ; and was under the in-
fluence of good fortune. He was very powerful, kind, and
munificent ; he always spent his time in devotion, and he
knew all the shástras. Kashmíra is the kingdom under the
protection of this powerful being, though it is governed by.
others. Whenever therefore a foreign sovereign seeks to
do mischief to the kings of Kashmíra, Táhirála destroys him.
Know that the country of Kashmíra is Párvvati, and its