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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 29
equality even of his shadow. Fire manifests itself by
heat and smoke, but no sign of anger manifested itself
in that wise man. The wise Shahamera pretended
illness and caused it to be known that his end was near.
Queen Koṭā then sent BhaṭṭaBhikshaṇa with Avatāra
and others to see him. They found people at the door
discussing whether perspiration was good for one who
suffered from beliousness ; and these people prevented
the Bhaṭṭa's party from entering. Bhikshaṇa and
Avatāra, however, went in to Shahmera, but their pro-
tecting deities did not enter with them, as if on account
of the difficulty in getting admission. Shahmera at
first complained to them in detail of his illness, and
when the proper time arrived, he buried their own
weapon in their bodies, and thus allayed the illness
of his mind. Blood issued from their heads, and
water came out of their eyes; their lives left their
bodies, and the rancor which Shahmera had felt, left
his mind. Shahmera was bathed in their blood as
one bathes after recovery from illness ; their two heads
were like the two halves of a vessel, and their wounds
were like the marks of the lamp. Queen Koṭā was
determined to besiege Shahmera, and she was capable
of doing so ; but her evil minded ministers deterred
her from doing it, and reminded her that Shahmera and
Bhikshṇa had brought up her boys, and that it was Fate
that had killed the one by making the other an instru-
ment. That inorder to assuage the grief which had