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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 37
The king abolished the evil custom under which a
childless widow, though unchaste obtained a share of
her husband's property from her father-in-law. The
great and wise king made Jayāpīḍapura his capital, and
built at SrīRiñchanapura, an edifice named Budhagira.
In the year 19, a famine of unprecedented severity, the
effect of the sins of men, harassed the suffering people.
Having ruled the kingdom for twelve years, eight
months, and thirteen days, the king died in the month
of Chaitra, in the year 30.
The halting description of the reigns of bad kings
now gives place to an account of the very powerful
Shāhāvādīna [Sahab-ud-din]. When he became king,
the country ceased to remember the prosperity and
dangers, the pleasures and afflictions of the time
of Lalitāditya. As the sky, after the departure of the
different seasons, obtains the bright sun in summer, so
the earth passed under the rule of many kings, and
obtained this sovereign at last. The king did not re-
pair to the city of the sinful Jayāpīḍa. Adorned with
pearls and necklace, this king was the most prominent
among all kings, past and future, as the central jewel
is prominent in a necklace. Though he obtained
victory at every step yet the fire of his valor was not
satiated, even as the ocean receives rivers from all
directions, and is not satiated. He counted as lost
those brief periods of time in which he obtained no
victory. The march with his army was as dear to him