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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 47
be false, and if it proved true, he would attain super-
human power ; and so the king was not troubled with
grief. The king then sent letters to his sons, who were
at a distance, to come to him, but they did not come.
This wise sovereign then placed the Hindukas in their
own posts, and on the fourteenth lunar day of the
bright moon of the month of Jaiṣhṭha, in the year 49, he
cheered celestial beauties by his embraces.
King Kumbhadīna succeeded ; his orders were
placed on the heads of kings, his bounty delighted their
hearts, and his prăise was on their lips. He captivated
the hearts of all, even like the sun when he is in the
equinox, and is neither too powerful nor too weak.
Those whom the late king had sent to reconnoître
Lohara had run away in fear of the lord of that country.
All the luminous plants become dull when the moon
sets, and the sun-jewel loses its brilliancy at the setting
of the sun. With a view to attack Lohara, king Kum-
bhadīna sent the powerful Ḍāmara Lolaka from the
city, and Lolaka surrounded the hill of Lohara on all
sides. The lives of the great men who devote them-
selves to their master's work are like grass. The lord of
the fort, unable to defend it, sent Brāhmaṇa messengers
to the Ḍāmara chief, in order to deliver it up. But the
Ḍāmara, who had kept his temper even in the heat of
battle, believed the messengers to be spies in the garb
of Brāhmaṇs, and he chastised them. Brāhmaṇas were
as gods to the lord of Lohara, and when he heard that