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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 151
his servants were armed with fearful weapons, and they
shook hands with the god of death, and roamed about in
the world. This king of the north, named Merjjābho-
saida, sent an accomplished messenger to the monarch
with high horses and mules. Mahammada Suratráṇa, king
of Gūrjara, gratified the monarch with presents of textile
fabrics celebrated by the names of kateha, sohasa, and glāta.
The kings of Gilāna, Mesra [Egypt?], Makkā, and other
places sought to benefit themselves by sending various
rare presents to the monarch. Who did not seek to please
the monarch, and what artists, possessed of great designs
in art, did not come from distant countries, like bees, to
the monarch who was almost like the kalpa tree? It was
then that the people of Kashmīra learnt the use of the
weaver's brush* and loom, and today they are weaving
valuable cloths of silk. The woollen fabrics called soha
[shawl?] and others, manufactured in foreign countries and
those made in Kashmīra today, are both beautiful, but the
latter are strong and fit for kings. Other clothes were
made, on which variegated plants were produced by
various methods of weaving, which painters saw and re-
mained dumb with wonder. The monarch's kingdom,
known by the name of Kausheyaka, and his dress of silk,
alike became famous, the former on account of the various
tribes of people that inhabited it, and the latter for the
various colored threads that it contained. By his own

• To clean threads.