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

272 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
with no other weapon than his fist, and he perished
at the door stunned with hundred wounds. When
Meya Hasana beheld him in that state, he immediately
ran away in fear, trying to climb over a wall, but his
two legs were cut off. Thus was Meya Hasana killed
by some of the Madras, and with Meya Hasana
perished also Gadayāmīna, Yāsīmamallala, and others,
with their sons and friends, thirty in number.
They raised the cry of 'hāla' 'hāla', but the Madras,
their hands wet with blood, were busy killing them,
and moved about like the servants of Death. As the
Saidas had slaughtered cows in their houses without
any compunction for the sin, even so the Madras now felt
no mercy in killing the Saidas. As the Saidas used
to mutilate deer and other animals, after the termination
of a chase, so they were similarly treated in that house by
the diminutive Madras. They who were accustomed to
lie on costly beds, now lay without any apparel, their
clothes being robbed by their enemies; and in their
helplessness they became the objects of the people's
gaze. Haibhatakhāna and certain other men drew
their daggers, hastily scaled the wall, took to their
horses and fled. The attendants of the Saidas did not
know who were being killed in the thick of the combat,
they forgot their pride in their alarm and fled, and
none of them drew his weapon in the yard of the house.
Called by the son of Malla Jāda, Meyā Mahammada
came from his house and immediately attacked the