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

38 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
as a young wife is to an old man. Deer-eyed women
attracted not his mind, nor the pleasures of drinking,
nor the light of moon. Only the march with his army
occupied the king's attention. Neither heat nor cold,
nor evening nor night, neither hunger nor thirst obstruc-
ted his march. When this proud king was on his
march, he found no difficulty in crossing unfordable
rivers, inaccessible mountains and barren deserts. In
his conquering expeditions, the king first went to the
north which had never been conquered by previous
kings, and which was peopled by the Pārasīkas. He
took Chandra, Laulaka, and Shūra with him for help,
even as the world conquering Kāma takes the spring,
wine, and woman as his auxiliaries. This destroyer
of the proud filled his soldiers with strength, his enemies
with grief, and all sides with dust. Udabhāṇḍapura,
ruled by Govindaḵẖāna, was first entered by his arrows
and then by his soldiers. When the army of the king
reached the top of the mountain, his opponents, des-
cended from the high peak in fear. The ruler of Sindhu
unable to make presents befitting the king, presented
his own daughter to him. The weight of the country
of the Gāndhārās was added to the king's glory, but
strange! that the weight of fear lowered the hearts of
those people. The powerful king destroyed the pride
of the country of the Shiṅgas but did not destroy their
swords. On hearing the lion-roar raised by the army
of the lion like king, Gajinīpurī [the elephant city] fell