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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 321
The deer uses his antlers for the death of others, but is
killed by arrows discharged from bows made of the
self same horn.
Thus the people had for a long time beheld, with plea-
sure, as it were, the graceful chumps of bamboo in a grove
beautified by various colored grass and thick foliage.
But a fire rose from friction, and all was destroyed
in the grove from one end to another ; the offices found-
ed by ancient kings passed away in a short time, and
was only remembered as a dream. Some one falsely
reported to the king that Mallika Jāda intended to bring
forward the son of the blind Khāna and usurp the king-
dom. When the king heard this, he ordered the Mallika
to be imprisoned after confiscating all his property. All
those who had envied the Mallika were pleased with this.
Mallika Jāda had obtained wealth by violence, and by
violence did the officers of the king take away his riches.
No one pitied him in his misfortune, for he had op-
pressed the people by exacting bribe and money. It
was with much difficulty that his wealth was taken away
from him, for his vile hand, and the vile wealth he had
acquired by force, had become fast friends. It was with
difficulty and by means of coercion that the officers of the
king extracted from him what he had stored, even
as a serpent is pulled out with difficulty from its hole.
The barber Pūrṇa and Mallika Jāda and others, spoilt
of their riches, died after long imprisonment. Thus
Jainarāja's fatal curse reached all those who had