द्वितीय राजतरङ्गिणी (जोनराज - कल्हणोत्तर मध्यकालीन कश्मीर का प्रामाणिक इतिहास)

170 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
obscures my reign, even as a breath obscures a mirror.
The unruly Khashas, ever ready to destroy, will not
remain long with you, even as swans do not remain
long in tanks. Why have you of your own accord, and
without my orders, come into the country ? Who can
obtain the kingdom by force except when propitious
fortune favours him ? You were ruling over all the
outer countries, wherefore were you not satisfied with
them, and wherefore have you come to take away the
rest of my kingdom by force ? O son ! Cease to enter-
tain vain and vicious thoughts ; the sin of the destruc-
tion of the two armies will rest on thee.’ This have I
told you in the words of your father ; but I tell you truly,
that, like a sparrow before a hawk, your warriors will
fly away from the king.” When the soldiers heard
these unpleasant words of the Brāhmaṇa, they cut off
his ears, and with the blood they marked the foreheads
of their friends. When Hājyakhāna saw this he felt
ashamed, and came to Abhimanyu the Pratīhāra, and
asked permission to leave his soldiers and to bow at
the feet of his father. “Be the king pleased or angry,”
said he “he will deal with me as he likes. I shall al-
ways serve the feet of the king, and he surely will pro-
tect us. In my judgment, this battle should not be begun.
I do not, even in dream, think of mischief to the king ;
he who bestows on me happiness both in this world
and in the next is greater to me than a god. My elder
is approaching in the front, and my father is preparing