KINGS OF KASHMlRA.
VOL. III.
SECOND SERIES.
One half of Hara's person was united with one half of Parvati's, as if they had become one through mutual affection. The other halves of their persons, adored in the three worlds, have disappeared as if in sorrow, because they could not unite. May the united figure be auspicious to you. May Ganesha with his ample form, dispensing joy and plenty every day to all around remove all difficulties from your path.
ShriGonarda and other virtuous and meretorious kings ruled the kingdom of Kashmira from the beginning of the Kali Yuga. But for a long time they were under an evil influence which lasted, like the darkness of the winter night, and no one knew of the kingdom, as no sun of poesy arose to disperse the gloom. Then the Brahmana Kalhana with lucid words imparted the freshness of youth to the old accounts of the kings down to the reign of Jayasimha. It is owing to the fault of the country or to the misfortune of the succeed-
