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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 243
is lost does not listen to the advice of his well-wishers,
but when he finds himself in difficulties he regrets that
he did not accept it.
When the Saidas had thought over the minister's
letters, they became anxious to return ; they collected
their party, and came in like swans. First, their chief
Meyā Hassana, accompanied by his trusty adviser
Naurujā, came to the king. After befitting mutual
eulogies, Mallika became favourably inclined towards
him, and bestowed on him his own estate Khoyāshrama.
The same Saida Hassana, who could not even enter the
country before, was now, for the destruction of the
Mallika, in a position to pass orders on others. Gradu-
ally the Saidas entered the country in great numbers,
and spread themselves over the kingdom ; and the
people of Kashmīra, those who were in the country
and those who lived in the out skirts, became alarmed.
And when the minister Ahmada saw the Saidas coming
in riding their horses, and moving like waves, and
beloved by the king, and when he perceived that the
king was influenced by them, on account of the
influence which the queen exercised over the king,
he and his sons repented. What man would not be
happy if the idea that comes to him after a deed is
done, came to him before it was accomplished ? He
could then confide in his friends and defeat his enemies.
At that time the Saidas intended to throw Tājibhaṭṭa
into prison in order that they might rob his wife,