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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 251
days." The people soon came to wonder at seeing the
result of all this which the minister had exclaimed in his
sorrow, while in the prison.
The Mallika Ahmada had administered wisely, and
when he was thus destroyed with his sons, wicked people
acquired influence with the king. The avaricious
Tājibhaṭṭa and others, and those among the Saidas
who held offices, oppressed the people, even as painful
diseases oppress the body. 'On the pretence of taking
"flowers of joy" and "Dīnnāra pieces," the Saida
officers began to acquire riches at the expense of the
subjects. Shrī Jyahāngira the Mārgesha, Nosarājānaka,
and others, looked graceful in their elegant conveyances
like trees with beautiful leaves in spring. Shrī Meyā
Hasana got the title of Mallā which had belonged to
the Mallika, and likewise obtained the Mallika's village
of Nāgrā na and his estates. He divided his new estates
among his sons and servants, and gave half of the
wealth and estates to Meyā Mahmada. The Saidas
became unruly after their triumph, they placed the king
under their control, and they sent messengers and
brought in the able Saida Nāsira. When he arrived at
Pāñchāladeva by the Sūrapura road he was attacked
with fever, and in that state he entered the capital.
He gave audience to all,—his grand-daughter, son-in-law,
wife's brother, kindred, and the ministers,—all the
people whom he would not live to see again ; for he
arrived almost in a dying state, as if only to see