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

128 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
southwards, and thus causes cold. I bow to the sun
who thus brings relief to men, and who again moves
northward to remove their sufferings caused by cold.
Ādamakhāna reached Kramarājya, and the king fearing
that his state would be divided into factions wrote a
letter with his own hand thus, and sent it to Hājyakhāna.
"O son ! Calamities have befallen me which I find it
difficult to surmount; my life is in danger, and I have
no other help but in you. As soon as you read my
letter, sit up at once if you were sleeping, stand up if
you were seated, run if you were standing. What more
need be said in this matter? If you come without
delay, and without minding the trouble which this bad
news may cause, truly your desire will be realized in full.
But if you do not arrive here speedily while I am yet
alive though distracted, there will be no use in your
coming to me after I am dead." Now prince Ādamakhāna
had crossed over to Svayyapura, and engaged his force
in a fierce encounter with the royal army. The contest
between the two armies soon became a general confused
battle, marked by great ferocity. The battle in this
year, 35, like that in the year 28, was caused by wicked
people ; they created enmity between father and son, and
caused harm to them both. The people of Darad and
others drowned themselves in the water of the river
through fear of Ādamakhāna, and the lake became full of
corpses. The three hundred men of Ādamakhāna, fierce
as death, slaughtered men in the field that day and then