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

190 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
In the meantime the king's haughty elder brother
arrived at Parṇotsa with his army from the Madra
country, with the intention of usurping his brother's
kingdom. When the king heard of this, he became
angry; he caused his father's officers to be brought
before him and asked them what should be done. They
replied :— "Your elder brother has come, but we will go
and cut the bridge over the narrow river, otherwise
should he arrive here he would be irresistible. O master !
order us so to do." When the king heard their request;
he misunderstood their motive, and suspected that they
were deserting him to go over to the side of his brother ;
and he replied "so will it be."
The king then left them, and at night called before
him his ministers Phiryyadāra and others, who had be-
come cruel in the prosecution of their work. They in-
formed the king that it was owing to the conspiracy
of Hassana the treasurer that his elder brother had
come, and that if Hassana were destroyed his brother
would retire, otherwise he would enter the capital.
They advised that Hassana should be brought by some
artifice, and killed in the morning. Accordingly the
king concealed his anger and gave orders to his ser-
vants. On the morning Hassana the treasurer and
others, being summoned by the king, left their at-
tendants behind and come out of their homes. The
affrighted horse, as if it knew the purpose of the summons,
remained motionless and began to tremble, and it was