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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 245
others. Even Jyahangira the Mārgesha became afraid
of the Maliika, because the Saidas had been injured
by the murder of their sister's son. Now all the offices
of power had been given to men of the Mallika's party,
and the Pratīhāra and other worthy men had been
sacrificed for his selfish purposes. For these and other
faults the king became estranged from the Mallika, and
rarely gave him audience; and for the protection of
his own life he prudently avoided living in any one
place in his kingdom.
Accompanied by the Saidas, the king went to the
garden by the side of his palace, to enjoy the sport of
flowers, even as Indra goes to the garden of Kuvera.
After he had enjoyed the sport, he got into a boat,
and in the company of the Mārgesha and Nauruja, gave
himself up to drinking. They all became intoxicated,
and talked on various topics, and, like the members of
the family of Yadu, they hit one another with the arrows
of words. When the excitement became great, the king
left his turban in anger and went to the house of the
Mallika in order to rebuke him. Efforts were made to
propitiate him, but the king returned to his palace
angry, and grief for the indiscretion of his son (Nauruja)
touched the minister's heart. On another day the king,
whose heart was estranged from Ahmada, privately told
the minister's enemies of his unreasonable determination
not to protect any more the party of the minister. The
enemies of Ahmada took advantage of this opportunity,