32 HISTORY OF CASHMIR. 



the courts of some compassionate princes, where, according to general be* 

 lief he died in exile ; according to other accounts, he engaged in unsuccess- 

 ful attempts to recover his kingdom, in one of which he was taken prisoner 

 by the nobles and thrown into captivity, from which he was released only 

 by his death. The term of his reign was 48 years, 



J 'o r C io. The successor of Yudhishthir was Pratapaditya,* who was invited from 



another country : he was a kinsman of the king Vicramaditya ; a different 

 monarch, says our author, from the Sacdri Vicramaditya, although some- 

 times identified erroneously with that prince :f he was a virtuous monarch 

 and enjoyed a prosperous reign of 32 years, leaving his crown to his son, 



Jalaucas,^ who also reigned 32 years, and was succeeded by his son, 



Tunjina,§ who with his queen Vacpushta, erected the temple of Tunges- 

 wara, and founded the city Haravasanticd, in a district watered by the Sa- 

 tahradd, and Pagovaha like the bow cflndra, and its string. H In their time 

 existed Chandaca a portion of Dwaipayana, whose Ntya is well known. 



In the reign of this prince an unseasonable fa'l of snow in the ir south 

 Bhadra destroyed the crops, and caused a famine, in which great nu.nbers 

 of people perished : such was the general distress, that all the ties of so- 

 ciety were dissolved, and all the duties of life disregarded : modesty and 

 pride, family honor, and public respect were aH forgotten ; the love of pa- 

 rent and child, of husband and wife, no longer prevailed : every individual 

 sought alone for self-preservation, and although reduced to bones and ten- 

 dons, the famished skeletons fought with fury for the carcases cf ihe dead, 



* Pertaubdut. — Ay. Ac, 



+ Notwithstanding our author's assertion, it seems probable that the identification is right. 

 JSarayan Cul and Bedia-ad-din state that Pratapaditya was related to, Vicramaditya, the cele- 

 brated prince of Malwa: we sha II have occasion to advert hereafter to this subject more fully, 



% Juggook. — Ay. Ac. 



§ Bunjir. — Ay. Ac. 



11 The first is the Setlej, the second must be the Beyali, to which the name in the text suffi- 

 ciently approaches. 



