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

46 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
from his horse, and killed the lion with his sword. The
grateful king whose life was thus saved, rewarded him
with wealth ; but apprehending the death of Madana-
lāvika at the hands of wicked men, he wisely sent him
forthwith to the king of Ḍilli on pretence of marriage.
Once upon a time a man named Sharkarasūha saw
in a dream a great city of gold which shone like cham-
paka flowers blown in the sky. He dreamt that he en-
tered into house after house, but he found them all emp-
ty. In a palace however he found a woman of radiant
beauty. He asked her why she was living alone
but fearless in that great city, like the crescent of the
moon in the sky ; and he enquired whose city it was,
why it was tenantless, and whose body was lying before
her. She replied, that, like a beauteous woman whose
husband was dead, or like the night without moon, that
city belonged to the king of the Gandharbhas ; and
the king, in order to govern the country of Kashmīra,
had left his body there, and with all his ministers had
descended on earth. He was known in the three worlds
by the name of Shāhāvadīna, and that she alone was
staying there to keep watch over the body. She said,
that, after completing his work on earth, the king would
return within three months to protect his own city.
When Sharkarasūha awoke, he was sunk in excessive
wonder and grief and meditation, and he narrated his
dream to the king. The king thought to himself that
there was no cause for fear if the dream turned out to