HISTORY OF CASHM1R. 31 



Gopaditya, after a reign of 60 years, was succeeded by his son Gokerna,* 

 of whom it is merely stated that he erected a temple to GoKERNEswARA.f 



Narendr4ditya,"J; his son, succeeded him, after a reign of 57 years : he reign- 

 ed 31 years and a few months, and left the crown to his son YuDHiSHfnfRA§ 

 surnamed the blind, from the s in all n ess of his eyes. 



The commencement of this monarch's reign was influenced by the same ni ? c - 



» J 216 or 40. 



attention to virtue and propriety, as had governed the conduct of his pious 

 predecessors. As fortune had however decreed that he should be the last 

 of his dynasty, he gradually ceased to regard the lessons of prudence and 

 piety, and addicted himself to sensual pleasures and disgraceful society: he 

 was constantly inebriated with wine : his companions were harlots and buf- 

 foons, and he treated with levity and scorn the admonition of his coun- 

 sellors : the administration of affairs was neglected : the chief nobles defi- 

 ed the royal authority, and foreign princes encroached upon the confines of 

 the kingdom. To prevent the ruin of the state, and to revenge upon the 

 prince the insults they had received or prevent those which they anticipated, 

 the ministers approached the palace with a numerous and well appointed 

 force : as resistance was hopeless, the king precipitately fled from Srinagar, 

 and secreted himself in the woods and mountains with his women and a few 

 followers, doomed now to exchange luxury for privation, the downy couch 

 for the sharp rock, and the harmony of minstrels for the wild dashing of cas- 

 cades, or the wilder horns of the mountaineers : he at last found a refuge in 



by Bernier. A '1 opposite de cette montagne il en paorit une aussi avec une petite mosquee 

 avec unjardin et un tres ancien batiment qui marque avoir ete un temple d' Idotes, quoiqon 

 V appelle Tact Souleman, Le trone de Soulemau ii. 274. , 



* Kurren. — Ay. Ac. 



f The lord of Gokerna, being in fact a LiNGA, as whenever that emblem of Siva is set 

 up, it receives the appellation of IswARA compounded with some word expressive of the divine 

 attributes, as Viswe'swara, the Lord of all; of the locality of its site, as Gangesivara, Ccdarcs- 

 •wara, &c. or of the person by whom it is erected, as in the text. 



X Nurundraimt. — Ay. Ac. § Jewdishter. — Ibid. 



