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

126 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
of villagers wherever that sinful man passed through,
like a dire calamity. Like the course of a dreadful
planet, his course was marked by the confiscation of
lands which had been previously given away as marks
of favour, although the title deeds were clear. The
covetous Ādamakhāna plundered the people of their
riches in some places by the usual methods, in other
places by threat, or craft, or by deceiving them with
false hopes, and in some places by force. Like a
common man he pretended friendship with the several
Lavanyas, came to their houses, and out of covetous-
ness, robbed them of their wealth. His servants
oppressed timid women, made insulting proposals
to them ; and as the women refused compliance, they
cruelly treated the villagers, and took care to avoid
courts of justice. Ādamakhāna was invincible to the
people of the kingdom, even like a clever logician,
and his shameless servants forcibly entered into houses
where there were handsome women ; — wives, daughters, or
daughters-in-law of citizens, and ravished them. In wine
shops, these servants drank in fishpots, and when they
became intoxicated, they began to blow the earthen pots
like jesters. In their violence, they consumed rice from
the barns, got drunk with wine from the casks, and exacted
enhanced rents. What more need I tell of their un-
lawful acts ? At night these wicked men besmered the
villagers with ghee, and made lamps of them at the
junctions of roads by placing them in vessels full of oil