Rajatarangini of Kalhana:Kings of Kashmira/Appendix H
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Being A Translation of the Sanskrit Work
Rajatarangini of Kalhana Pandita
By Jogesh Chunder Dutt
1887
London: Trubner & Co.[x.12]: The following story is related of the two images mentioned in the text ; —
On the day following, when the ceremony of invoking the divine spirit into the images was about to be commenced, an astrologer from a foreign country found fault with the images as they were filled with frogs and stones inside. And when
[p. xiii]: the king was meditating as to what to do, his goddess queen said to him that; when the daughter of Himalaya was being married to Shiva, Brahma, who served as priest worshipped Vishnu. But since it was as useless to worship Vishnu alone as to worship Sakti without Linga, he made a Linga also. These images of Vishnu and Linga were then taken from Brahma by Ravana and were worshipped at Lanka, and were kept there for a long time. But after Ravana's death, the monkeys took possession of them, and not knowing their value, threw them into the lake Manasa. "From that lake, I have caused them to be, taken out, and you shall see them to-morrow morning." She then went into her apartment, and through her invisible agents, caused them to be got out of the lake, and the king to his great surprise saw them in the morning. Suddenly another image of Shiva, named Ranasvami, arose from the earth penetrating the ground, and then ascended to the heaven unperceived. Some say, however, that it was seen by all men. In honor of this god, the queen made the holy Siddha versed in Vedas perform many religious ceremonies. Before god Pradyumna, the king and the queen raised two images of Shiva, named Ranarambhasvami, and built a house for Shaivas.