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

30 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
arisen from the death of a Brāhmaṇa, the senseless Shah-
mera would sacrifice the lives of others in the blazing fire
of his anger.
As the canal nourishes cultivated fields with water,
so did the queen nourish the people by bestowing
much wealth on them. She was to the kingdom what
the moon is to the blue lotus ; and to the enemy she was
what that luminary is to the white lotus. On one
occasion she marched against the lord of Kampana,
with the intention to fight, because he had disobeyed
her orders. But the lord of Kampana captured her
in a mountain defile and put her in prison, even as
one catches a bird in its nest and puts it in a cage.
Her best minister named Kumārabhaṭṭa pretended to
quarrel with her other ministers with a view to release
her. He took with him a young student who carried
in his hand a water vessel, and who resembled the
queen in his appearance except that he was a man.
The wise Kumārabhaṭṭa went over to the lord of
Kampana, praised his intelligence, and admired his
magnanimity and beautiful appearance. “O lord ! ” he
said “ by obeying the orders of a female we live with
our heads humbled, but you have this day made our
manhood triumph. With your permission I, your ser-
vant, will go to the prison, and by reproving and con-
soling her by turns, I will take out her money
and give it to my lord. She has accumulated money,
being a woman, and being unable to part with it