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

60 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
images. Of the tree of misgovernment [which was now
planted] Harṣhadeva the Turuṣhka was the seedling,
sinfulness was the root and the terrible devastations
caused by the Lavanyas were the leaves. Its flower
was Ḍalacha the king of the mlechchhas ; and its fruits
were the daily troubles of the king who broke images
at the instigations of the mlechchhas. He broke the
images of Mārttaṇḍa, Viṣhaya, Īshāna, Chakrabhṛit,
and Tripureshvara ; but what can be said of the evil
that came on him by the breaking of the Sheṣha ? When
Sureshvarī, Varāha, and others were broken, the world
trembled, as if through fear, but not so the mind of the
wicked king. There was no city, no town, no village,
no wood, where Sūha the Turuṣhka left the temples of
gods unbroken. Of the images which once had existed,
the name alone was left, and Sūhabhaṭṭa then felt the
satisfaction which one feels on recovering from illness.
Sūhabhaṭṭa with the leaders of the army tried to destroy
the caste of the people ; it was like a boy eating the
unwholesome food. The Brāhmaṇas declared that
they would die if they lost their caste, and Sūhabhaṭṭa
subjected them to a heavy fine because they held to
their caste. At the time when his dependents who
belonged to the Brāhmaṇa and other castes forsook
their caste, ambitious to obtain the favour of the king,
Shrī Siṁha and Bhaṭṭakasthūṭa, two merchants, became
worthy of praise, and Shrī Nirmmalāchāryyavaryya
deserved praise in the three worlds. Nirmmalāchāryya