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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 255
power, as it once was under the power of Mallika
Ahmada.
The Mārgesha feared mischief from the Saidas on
account of the hostile queen, and he with his troops
went away by the Kārkoṭadraṅga road. He took away with
him all his relatives and property through Bhāṅgila,
and went by inaccessible roads, but did not lose his
patience. Jewels lie scattered in the great sea into
which the rivers flow, and the waters are agitated by
storm ; even so there are jewels in this great and pros-
perous kingdom in which the armies meet, and which
is agitated by the mutual quarrel of ministers. When
the enemies prosper day by day, and the sovereign
becomes infirm in a country, the few who are good
follow the only proper course that is left to them,—they
leave the country. For to remain quiet would be weak-
ness, to make liberal gifts would reduce wealth, to
create factions would be a wicked act, to go to battle
would cause death to men. The king repented the
destruction of the party of the minister, and the flight
of the Mārgapati and of others was to him like salt in
a wound. Though the king was attended by all the
Saidas, yet without the Mārgesha he felt like an ele-
phant left alone out of the herd. A few of those who
were born of the family of the Mārgesha, or of the family
of the Pratīhāra, or of the family of Ṭhakkura, or of
the treasurer, were still alive. They had been powerful
before on account of their family and of their successes ;