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

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who was benevolent to men, accessible, meritorious, and
liberal, the king who knew the literature of many lan-
guages, who was favourable to the men of merit, and
untiring in work of kindness and of virtue,—that king,
alas ! is now laid on the ground. Fie to us, sinful and
depraved in our hearts ! Overcome by the love of the
world, we still live therein, and do not fly to the wilder-
ness in sorrow. As the bosom of a woman does not
look graceful without a necklace, nor the intellect
without learning, nor the expanded lotus flowers without
the sun, nor the human body without youth, nor the
night without the moon, nor a wife without her husband,
even so the kingdom of Kashmīra did not look graceful
without its king. Good men felt sorrowful at heart, and
found no rest ; and they always lamented and said that
king Shrī Jainollābhadena was the greatest among all
sovereigns, that he was versed in all learning and loved
the study of logic and other branches of knowledge,
and that he consequently shone in the glory of the
learned. He was distinguished by his desire to see
learned men collected around him, and by his wish
to bestow gifts and honors on them, as well as by
his well deserved fame. They said that he had consoli-
dated Kashmīra, and had gone as if to consolidate
heaven which was in a state of confusion. The royal
family, like a bamboo group in a garden, decked by
variagated grass and a profusion of leaves, was an
object of beauty for a long time ; but alas ! domestic
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broils, like a fire caused by friction, burnt all the things
in the garden from one end to the other. The officers
of Shri Jaina, owing to his curse, melted away within
one year, even like a dream ; and in the kingdom which
was disturbed at his death, only one in a hundred of
his servants remained, even like jewels in the ocean,
after it is agitated by a gale. Servants remain with their
master and honor him as long as he who supports them
remains in power. The bee, the kokila, and the frog hail
the spring with their voice as long as spring lasts on
earth. Even these few servants of the king who remain
ed, withered like grass under innumerable scorching suns.
Here ends the first book named the account of
Jainashāhi of Jainarājatarangiṇī composed by paṇḍita
Shrivara.

BOOK II.
I bow to the god, ( Mahâdeva ), who is the master
of the hidden significance of all words, and who per-
vades all the universe. Who does not, by prayer in the
form of a partial description of his person, attain the fruit
of worship ? His right foot is fixed in the ground, and
his left foot, though oft in motion, seeks to rest, and
thus describes a circle on a straight line. The god
not unoften performs a dance while walking in the even-
ing. Let that dejty, a god and a goddess in one, ever
bestow happiness on us.
By an order under his seal, Hājyakhāna now declared
his name to be Haidarashāha, and took possession of
the kingdom on the first day of the moon in the month
of Jaiṣhṭha. A festivity was held on the occasion of
his taking over the kingdom in which the performance
of religious acts predominated, and joy was promoted
by gifts, and many auspicious acts were done, and many
who sought happiness found it. Shekandharapuri was
full of happy men, the favourites of the king were clad
in clean garments, and the city looked as beautiful
as the sky, when full of stars. The new powerful
monarch sat on a golden throne in the yard of the palace,
even as the sun sits on the peak of the Meru mountain.
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brother, who looked like the planets Venus and Jupiter
before the moon. The treasurer Hassana distributed
money, as ordered, and put the mark of royalty on the
forehead of the king with offerings of gold and flower.
As in the rainy season the clouds rule the world with
lightnings, even so did the king Hājyahaidhara govern the
country. The king’s youngest brother Bahrāmakhāna was
even like himself, and through affection, the king made
him lord of Sukṣhitī in the Nāgrāma country. It was after
a long time that the king met his son, and, overwhelmed
as he then was with sorrow for his father, he found even
greater comfort than what he had felt when he
was appointed heir-apparent of the kingdom. Āvaṭra,
Lavaka, and others found great favour with the king, and
were invested with authority in the kingdom. Other
servants also obtained favours from the new king and
obtained the gift of villages, good or indifferent, accord-
ing to their previous services. The king then parted
with the kings of Rājapurī and Sindhu who had come
to see him, after decking them with ornaments befitting
kings. In the king’s palace, ministers, feudatory kings,
captains of armies, and others, adorned with daggers of
gold, mingled in the rejoicings, and with them moved
the servants to whom were given valuable garments of
silk. The king, free from all vices, protected his people,
even like the waxing moon in her fortnightly career.
There lived one Merjā Hassana, son of Saida Nāsira,
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He was of an affectionate nature, and fond nursing
children ; his mind was devoid of avarice and anger ;
he dispelled the darkness of ignorance and he was
honored in the kingdom as his father was. In festivities
and on all joyous occasions, Merjā Hassana and his
party were honored as the foremost. The king there-
fore thought that by attaching him to his son, he would
make his son as powerful as himself, and he accordingiy
caused his son to marry the daughter of Merjā Hassana.
The king had killed Hāngira son of Jyamsara the
Mărgapati, and attracted by the merit of Merjā Hassana
he now bestowed Vāngila on him. The king favoured
even those who did him harm ; the lion first stoops be-
fore elephants and then kills them.
The king kept his purposes concealed, and through
his spies informed himself of the acts of Hassana the
treasurer, and he bestowed honors on Hassana and
brought him under his power. The prowess of the king
made his enemies grieve ; he concealed his anger, and
was like the fire which lies concealed in ashes and is
the cause of death to many. He affected friendship
with some, and they did not apprehend any danger until
he found his opportunity to act against them. Others, he
honored out of policy, and thus he acted from various
motives. He was like Kuvera to his servants when he
bestowed his favours, but he was like death to them when
they were at fault. PhiryyaḌāmara and other ministers
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sorrow in secret. Thieves, immoral men, and the ene-
mies and oppressive servants of the king were like
jackals in the kingdom, they wandered about during
day time in fear.
After the death of king Shri Jaina the king's officers
again harassed the people, even like serpents deprived
of their head jewel. Even the full moon, which illumines
all sides and becomes worthy of the enjoyment of the
gods, has its stain, and the king likewise had one stain
in his character. The courtiers of the king combined
among themselves, and urged by the fear that the king
would kill all of them when he would hear of their faults,
they plotted to bring in a stranger. A barber by the
name of Riktetara* became the favourite of the king.;
he advised wicked deeds, was full of vices, and accepted
unfair bribes. Men addicted to enjoyments cannot
leave off evil habits, and thus the present sovereign,
though daily reproached by the late king, could not
cast off this barber who had become his favourite. This
wily barber, who had accumulated riches through the
toil of the people and who was skilled in devices for ac-
complishing his purpose, now became widely known by
his gifts of money. The cunning man kept concealed by
the sweetness of his tongue the hardness of his heart
which led him to oppress the people. Having thus attained
to power he wickedly harassed the subjects who had been

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protected by the king, as if they had been his sons. The
wise and renowned Bherabhokhāra, who was devoid of
all angry feelings, became the minister of the king,
and through the king's favour Machuryyā was made the
accountant, but the latter appropriated money which
belonged to the king, from all the offices.
The cloud which produces water and is the delight
of the pea-fowl, which causes a plentiful crop to grow in
cultivated fields and drives away heat, also afflicts the
people by discharging the thunder-bolt. The king re-
mained in a state of insensibility through wine, and
instigated by wicked ministers, did unwise acts, and caused
the misfortune of the subjects. He wished to build an
edifice by the side of Shekandharapurī, and ordered the
lofty trees in the Amṛita park to be cut down. The bees
saw the trees with the flowers cut down and left them,
and raised a hum as if in lamentation. The people did
not sympathise with the king's attempt to build the
edifice ; it was like the desire to light a lamp under
the sun. He was surely drunk when he did this. We
say this because he did many things that were harmful
to him. The barber obtained the orders of the king,
when he was drunk, and mutilated many men. The
relentless and sinful barber cut off the Ṭhakkuras and
courtiers of the king's father by the saw. Five or six
persons were going to their elder brother for the purpose
of performing the rites of svāvana, but the barber arres-
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them to be killed. They lived for a few nights, their
sufferings were narrated by their relatives, and they were
seen by the citizens fixed to the pales with tears in their
eyes. The barber knew Vaidūryya the physician to be a
calumniator, and a partisan of the enemy, and he releas-
ed the physician from arrest after cutting off his arms,
his nose, and his lips. Similarly, Nonadeva, Shikhajāla,
and others, five or six persons in all, had their tongues,
noses, and a hand cut off. By such outrageous acts as
mutilation and impaling, the barber Pūrṇa became
the butcher of men. Jayya the son of an āchāryya, as
also a Brāhmaṇa named Bhīma were maimed, and they
struggled and threw themselves into the Vitastā.
In this reign, owing to the prevalence of drunkenness,
wine came to be prepared from molasses as from grapes,
and this wine became as common here as the wine
prepared from sugar is in other countries. When the king
became addicted to wine and averse to all other kinds
of enjoyments, molasses and candies and other things
prepared from the juice of sugar-cane became scarce.
Mallāḍaudaka was a great master of music, and his
pupil Khujyābdolkāḍira taught the king to pay on the
lute. He acquired proficiency in the music of the
lute and other instruments from us and he spent all his
life to the music of the lute, without a moment's intermis-
sion. The king understood the art of playing on the lute
and was well skilled in it, so that he gave lessons even
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ravāva, and what did they not earn thereby through the
favour of the king who showered gold on them. Every
man was afraid of the king who was always under the in-
fluence of the wicked even when he was in his private
apartments or among his women, and the wicked were
like demons well skilled in dissimulation.
Once upon a time the ministers sent the barber Pūrṇa
to the king, and when the king was alone, the barber
asked him what he intended to do with the former
ministers. "These your father's ministers" he said "des-
troyed your party, and yet you have made them power-
ful now that you have obtained the kingdom. These
men, Hassana the treasurer and others, are loved by
your youngest brother, and cunning as he is, he is trying
to win them over by his wiles. Your body is frail and
you always confide in your brother, so that it will not
be long before the destruction of yourself, your sons, and
your servants is effected." When the king heard this he
said :— "It is true that my youngest brother dislikes my
son, but I will tell you the reason why nevertheless I
give protection to this wily man. My youngest brother is
violent in temper, and my eldest, who is active in his pre-
parations to usurp my place, is cunning, I intend to quell
my eldest brother by means of my youngest, even as a
thorn is extracted by a thorn. It is for the sake of this ser-
vice that I am giving him shelter, not out of respect for
him." When the barber heard this he made two or three
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In the meantime the king's haughty elder brother
arrived at Parṇotsa with his army from the Madra
country, with the intention of usurping his brother's
kingdom. When the king heard of this, he became
angry; he caused his father's officers to be brought
before him and asked them what should be done. They
replied :— "Your elder brother has come, but we will go
and cut the bridge over the narrow river, otherwise
should he arrive here he would be irresistible. O master !
order us so to do." When the king heard their request;
he misunderstood their motive, and suspected that they
were deserting him to go over to the side of his brother ;
and he replied "so will it be."
The king then left them, and at night called before
him his ministers Phiryyadāra and others, who had be-
come cruel in the prosecution of their work. They in-
formed the king that it was owing to the conspiracy
of Hassana the treasurer that his elder brother had
come, and that if Hassana were destroyed his brother
would retire, otherwise he would enter the capital.
They advised that Hassana should be brought by some
artifice, and killed in the morning. Accordingly the
king concealed his anger and gave orders to his ser-
vants. On the morning Hassana the treasurer and
others, being summoned by the king, left their at-
tendants behind and come out of their homes. The
affrighted horse, as if it knew the purpose of the summons,
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after much urging that, with tears in its eyes, it came to
the yard of the palace. Hassana the treasurer, Mera-
kāka, and others, five or six in all, then seated themselves
on a valuable carpet, and were anxious to learn what
the work of the king was which had to be performed,
As ordered by the king, Jaṁsara and other servants
first won the confidence of the party by dissimulation,
and then killed them within the room in the palace.
The treasurer rose and exclaimed against the treachery,
but with one stroke of a hatchet he was deprived of his
life. Struck by the weapon, and on the point of death,
Merakāka blessed the king and then expired. Ahma-
damera, a man of merit, a lover of learning, and the
delight of the people, was murdered while engaged in
writing, and every one was grieved for him. While
alive these men had lived united, and when cut off by
the hatchet, their blood mingled. Just before their death
they had been seated on a colored blanket, and when
dead, they were seen on it as if in sleep. The death
by the hatchet which they met, all in a moment, inside
the palace, was such as is unattainable by others, and
it was a glory to them. Thus were they killed, and at
their last moment neither riches, nor wife, nor servants,
nor tombs were of use to them.
The fear of the king was more distressing than the
fear of death ; the people were chastised or imprisoned
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Even one’s own wife deserts a man on such an occasion
not to speak of servants. It was more dangerous to
serve the king than to embrace fire, or to go before an
angry cobra, or to fall into the ocean. The Chaṇḍālas
at night took the bodies as of men who had no friends,
and buried them in a hole in the ground at the foot of
the Pradyumna hill, and covered the place with bricks.
The Mausulas always take care about the structures over
their graves and pay money to the architects. They do
not think that no one can know, except God, when or
how one may die. He alone is fit to build a tomb who
knows the period of his life, and to whom Death is obe-
dient as a friend. This practice of building tombs among
the mlechchhas is but a foolish one. This is my view.
Vaishravaṇabhaṭṭa and others had built their tombs, but
when in the end they died in a village, they were laid
there on the ground. An ordinary man carefully en-
closes a hundred cubits of land and prevents others from
entering it ; should he not be ashamed of this ? It is said
in the [Mahomedan] shāstra that if a small stone be
laid on the grave that stone becomes a source of joy to
the man who has gone to the other world. Alas ! the
strength of cupidity ! Even the dead, like the living,
keep possession of the ground under the pretence of
having a tomb ! Great men seem to enjoy their life in
taking pains over building tombs, but how many men
there are who go hungry ! Admirable is the practice
enjoined by the other [Hindu] shāstra, for tens of mil-

lions of dead are burnt on one cubit of land and the
land remains the same in extent. All these unworthy
censures have been passed in the course of this narration,
and they should be pardoned by the Mausulas, for the
words of the poet are not under his control.
Those who acquire wealth, even if as great as of a king,
by oppression, and do not spend any portion of it in
charity or in enjoyment, they by their sinfulness earn
misery which is the fruit of sin. All objects belonging to
such men depart from their houses and become the pro-
perty of the king, and their indigent relatives do not get
even a shell. The treasurer had amassed vessels of silver
filled with gold, and when the king saw them he spat on
the ground exclaiming, "Fie to the miser!" Every thing
which Vahmarāga and other partisans of the treasurer
had hoarded, was taken away, and with the exception of
Saida Hossana, they were all thrown into prison.
Others received the punishment of death from the king,
for the guilt of their father, even as the Kṣhatriyas did
of old from Parashurāma. The king remembered the
injury he had formerly received from the worthy and
able councillors of his father and got himself rid of
them. He remembered too the affection which Habhe-
bha and his five or six friends had borne towards him
and towards his father, as well as their services rendered
to him, and he maintained them in great dignity.
When Ādamakhāna at Pārgotsa heard the news of
the death of the treasurer, a message that bore the true
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import of his name,* he was struck with fright, and re-
turned in the same manner as he had come. Bahrāma-
khāna was also very much alarmed at the death of the
treasurer, but on coming home he received assurance
from the king who understood business. In the mean-
time the fine army under Māņikyadeva was destroyed in
a battle with the Turushkas, in the Madra country. In
this battle Ādamakhāna had went out to fight, with his
maternal uncle, and he was killed, his face being pierced
by an arrow. Some said that he was there killed by
men of his own party who were afraid of him ; while
others said that he died of a wound in a vital part by
a lance. When the king heard of his death from the
messengers he was very much grieved, and caused his
body to be brought from Madra country and placed
before his mother. Though he was the eldest of the
brothers and a hero, and though he had an army under
him, and possessed wealth and the part of the country
where he was born, yet he did not, in spite of endeavours,
obtain the kingdom which was his due. An object
wished for is not attained unless it is so decreed by
destiny; or was it in him that his father's curse came
to be realized? For though he returned to his own
country he died in a foreign land.
Signs of great calamities and of alarm appeared in
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the sky, in the air, and on the earth, each striving to
come foremost. First, when the king went to Maḍa-
varājya, to indulge in the festivity of flowers, there
occurred a great earthquake. The buildings, as if
perceiving the misery of their builders, began to tremble
like men. Then there appeared a comet, a sign of
calamity, extending over the sky with its tail towards
the east. It was first seen by Vahrāmakhāna. Its tail
was like the bearded lance of death, and its wide ex-
tending form was seen even in the day time, towards
the west. A mare in the king’s stable gave birth to
twins, and the king, in order to remove the animal from
the country, gave it away to the Yavanas. Lions and
other animals of the forest wandered about during the
day in Shrīnagara town, and a bitch gave birth to kittens.
The Sadānandi tree, which had been barren, bore
fruits, and flowers grew on the roots of pomegranate
trees near the palace. A rain of blood fell on the
clothes that were in the garden, and when men saw
this, they felt as if salt had been sprinkled on a wound.
In the meantime the Hindus, excited to anger by Pūrṇa
the barber, were guilty of severities on Saidakhāna
Āgāha and others who were residing in the town. When
the Yavanas heard of this, they became angry, and
went to the king and lamented aloud, and the king
ordered a persecution of the Brāhmaṇas. In his fury
the king cut off the arms and noses of Ajara, Amara,
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were his servants. During this time of the pillage of the
property of the Brāhmaṇas, they gave up their caste and
their dress and exclaimed, "I am not a Bhaṭṭa, I am not a
Bhaṭṭa." There were in the city many rich and principal
gods, and the king ordered the plunder of their images at
the instigation of the mlechchhas. King Jaina had
given them lands after he was satisfied as to their excel-
lence, but the officers of the present king robbed them
of their estates without any reason. The month of
Samāhisaphara is celebrated in the religion of the mlech-
chhas, that month now came for the destruction of
religion ; to whom did it not appear terrific ? When
the king was seen in an intoxicated state day after day,
when the ministers became subservient to the king, and
the king’s friends took bribes, were fickle minded, and
oppressed the weak, then the people thought of the
many virtues of king Shrī Jaina. All the old men in
the country, who had held high posts for a long time,
were now in danger, as the king had ordered them to be
disgraced, and they gave vent to their grief in cries and
lamentations. The curse pronounced for the sins of
men, as described in the Persian poem, was verified in
the country of king Shrī Jaina. Wicked men had wished
for the death of the wise old king ; expecting to
obtain money from the son ; but even these servants
who were dissemblers and had so long lived in joy
now came to be greatly oppressed, as if through the
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in their eyes and with loud cries, saying, "why has Fate
destroyed our protector the old king?" 'This short
reign became intolerable and appeared long, even as an
evil dream that is dreamt in a summer night. The
king's servants felt happy in amassing wealth by plunder,
in purloining household articles, and in oppressing the
people, even as owls are happy in darkness. The king
lay drunk with wine, and did not perform his duties
towards his subjects, but spent his time rolling on his
bed within the palace. He listened day and night to
songs sung by a potter, and did not give audience even
to men of merit who were worthy of a king. 'The
beautiful palace in Lakshmīpura,* which was completed
in the reign of Shāhābhadena, was burnt down by fire.
The great row of buildings in the neighbourhood of
Balāḍhya maṭha was also consumed together with the
wealth of many citizens. When men saw the destruction
of houses and witnessed other calamities in the country,
they said that the disasters would cease only with the
death of the king. The king ascended the palace and
saw his own five chambered house in flames ; he felt
happy and sank into the pleasures of drink.
In the meantime Neyadhīshaṇa sent the king's
son on an expedition into foreign countries. At the
sight of the army the kings of the foreign countries

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disappeared, even as stars fade away in the day when
they see the rays of the sun. First, Jayasiṃha, king of
Rājapurī, gave handsome presents to the prince, and
his sister pleased (married) the prince. When the prince
approached the river Kālidhārā, which looked like the
blade of his sword, every one there trembled in his
house out of fear of him. The troops, the dispellers of
fear, that were at Dinnārakoṭa came to that river and
made offerings to it, even as offerings are made to the
goddess Maṅgalā enshrined on a high ground. The kings
of Madra, Gakkhra, and Chittā came to him with atten-
dants dressed in shinning white, even as swans come to a
clear lake. Even his maternal uncles the Suhlaṇas brought
presents ; they were assiduous in their duties towards
the sovereign, and behaved like cranes. The Māhilas,
when they saw the destruction of Kaumāra town, lost
their firmness, though still possessing an army, even
as women lose their composure at sight of the man
on whom they have bestowed their favours. As the
prince's army crossed the river Kālidhārā in a line
and proceeded to Jyalamī, it looked like the bridge
which Rāma had built over the sea. The army, still
unwearied, then arrived at Kuṭipāṭīshvarī, and looked
as if issuing out of the navel of Nārāyaṇa. The houses
in the city of Bhogapāla, which had long been peopled
by the Madras, were burnt and the hearts of the men
were afflicted. The prince's army, with its prancing
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foot of the Vālyeshvara hill. The gallant army with
its prancing horses, seemed to shake the roads on which
they passed. As the army marched, the ground became
shorn of grass, the pools were drained of water, and the
forests bereft of wood. At this time I was honored
by the king and was sent to the prince. I explained
the Vṛihatkathā to him and became his reader. The
prince who had reduced kings to the state of tributary
chiefs had stayed for six months out of the country, but
at the end of Chaitra became anxious to return to
Kashmīra.
In the meantime Vahrāmakhāna, who knew that the
king was addicted to vices, attacked the ministers and
the leaders of the army and moved unchecked and un-
opposed. The king's constitution became weak by
constant drinking, his strength and beauty faded, and
he was attacked with gout and the spitting of blood. The
king received Hassanakhāna who had arrived, and as
the full moon dries up the lotuses, so did he reduce
the ministers. But instigated by the wicked, the king
became angry with his son because he had not brought
Rāja the Gakhvara bound. When Vahrāmakhāna heard
of the coming of the prince, whose arrival he had as
little expected as the coming of the eastern hill to the
west, his exertions became lax. The king did not show
his affection towards his son even when he had attained
greatness ; the intellect of those whose end is nigh
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ministers and the leaders of the army, the king merely
gave an audience to the prince who had returned from
the expedition. Surely the king was then afraid of
his youngest brother, or why should he make only
gifts of robes to his son? Surely he thought that
Vahrāma would oppose his son, and like the Shami
tree, he kept the fire of his resentment hid within him-
self.
Meanwhile, as if urged by death, the king, with his
servants, ascended the top of the palace in order to in-
dulge in drink ; and there within the apartment named
pushkara, in the glass room, the king fell down while
running about in sport, and bled from his nose. The
servants stretched their arms and carried him to the
bed room of the apartment, but he fainted away and
lay on his bed, and was like a mirror that did not reflect
any image on it. The trusted physicians of the king
were neglected, and a certain yogi tried on the king
his medicine which was strong on account of its poison,
and caused him pain. The king's body became exces-
sively heated, through the administration of the medi-
cine, and day and night he longed for death, nor wished
to live for a moment. The prince accompanied by the
minister Ahmada remained for three days within the
palace near his father. When the prince learnt that the
nobles had come to see his dying father, he placed
soldiers at the gate in order to prevent their going out.
The king's youngest brother was agitated both by fear and