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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 213
It is strange that none of our army died, but the arrows
discharged by our men pierced the scabbard of the
Khāna and he was unable to draw his sword, so that
his weapon became useless, his condition pitiable, and
he was surrounded by our soldiers. The Khāna’s ardour
abated, even like that of the funeral fire after a shower
of rain. The soldiers came up to him and attempted
to kill him, but Phiryaḍāmara in his mercy promptly
saved him by sheltering him within his arms. The
earth was full of mud, and there was an excess of rain,
a Brāhmaṇa was before him, and in his helplessness and
fear of death what miseries did he not feel? Oppressed
by the cold wind and by fear, sunk in the mud of the
field, naked, and deserted by his craven troops, spoilt of
all his property by the low, and witnessing his poor and
afflicted son crying aloud, Bahrāmakhāna thought at
that moment of his brother, his attendants, and his home !
He found himself and his son captured by the enemy
and did not know to whom he could address himself
or what he could do. Better were it, he thought, if
death had come and his life were extinct. He remem-
bered that what his father had said had come to pass
that day, and he blamed himself that he had rejected
jewel for glass ! Thus accusing himself, and discon-
solate in his grief, the Khāna is living like one dead,
like a tall bare tree, devoid of leaf and fruit, in the
month of Pousha ! Enjoy O king ! the kingdom that
has descended to thee in succession, and has been given