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

312 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
victory, and then descended from the sky. While the king
was trying to guess the number of the troops led by his
son, those troops appeared before him glittering in the
rays of the sun, and illumining the earth with their
splendour. And he saw his own troops also, and the
armoured and spirited horses moving swiftly in com-
panies. Whom could not the king or his eldest son
with the help of his army overthrow, were he Hājyakhāna
or any other hero? There at Mallashila the soldiers
met and displayed their various quick manœuvres, even
as dancers show off their different steps on a stage.
The army of the king was like a cloud, furnished with
weapons like lightnings, and it showered forth arrows
with deep and prolonged roar. The men who met one
another got mixed ; they produced sounds like those of
brazen gongs, and they bore mutual blows making a loud
noise. The drums of Hājyakhāna sounded loudly as if to
say—"the soldiers are compelling me to battle, do not
press me hard." I [the author] saw the Pratīhāra and
others, men of great and of little prowess, but all powerless
in this battle, as clouds are powerless to arrest the course
of the sun. Then the two Ṭhakkuras, Hassana and
Hossana, sons of the nurse and well wishers of the king,
came out in their wrath from among the king's forces.
The Rajputs Suvarṇa and Sīhanagra were struck with
many weapons, and they sacrificed their handsome persons
even as Shrī fruits are sacrificed in the smoke of a
Yajña. Warriors moved to and fro in the presence of