76 HISTORY OF CASHMIR. 



ged him to another apartment, and put him to death ; after which, they tied 

 a stone to his neck, and threw the body into the Vitasid. PARVAGUPTAtlien 

 in complete armour, and with his sword drawn, seated himself on the throne, 

 and received the homage of his accomplices and of the terrified citizens. 



After a short reign of little more than a year, this prince suffered the fate 

 due to his crimes ; he was slain by a party of enemies at Sureswari Cshelra 

 and left the crown to his son. 



Cshemagupta was a prince of depraved habits, and spent his time in 

 low and sensual indulgence; wine and women occupied his whole attenti- 

 on, and profligate characters engrossed his company ; it was not at all extra- 

 ordinary therefore that the kingdom should become a prey to civil dissen- 

 sion and foreign inroad, as the affairs of state were entirely neglected, and 

 the ministers alone fit to conduct them, were obliged to abandon the court 

 in order to avoid the ridicule and abuse, or even personal contumely which 

 they were compelled to receive from the prince and the companions of his 

 revels : consequently, besides private hostilities between P'halguna, and 

 some of the king's friends, the ruler of Campana engaging in a contest with 

 the Ddmaras, burnt and destroyed the Vihar of Jayendra, and demolished 

 a brass image of Sugata, and the king of the Cliasas compelled Cshema- 

 gupta to cede to him six and thirty villages, after burning many Vihars* 



The ruler of Lahore, Sinha Raja, now gave Cshemagupta in marriage 

 his daughter Didda, the grand-daughter by the mother's side of Said ; a 

 princess destined to bear an important part in the subsequent revolutions 

 of Cashmir : her charms seem to have had little effect upon her husband, 

 for after his marriage he adopted a new amusement, and devoted all his 

 time to the pleasures of the chace. They were the occasion of his death, for 



* These broils which are very obscurely and confusedly narrated in the original, were perhaps of a 

 religious complexion, and may be connected with the persecution of the B'ouddlias, of which so much 

 is said and so little is known, by the Hindus. 



