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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 273
king's house. The road keeper Norollāha came to him,
but he thought the man to be a rebel, and in his anger
he soon caused him to be killed on the king's highway.
When Meyā Mahammada saw the newly repaired palace
gates closed, and knew that the enemies were within,
he reluctantly caused them to be set on fire. The
gates thus fell a sacrifice to the fire, as if in grief
for the tumult, and for the death of their protector.
Volumes of smoke rose gracefully and reached the
white-washed building, and it seemed as if the goddess
of Royal Fortune sighed in grief, not knowing where the
wicked people were leading her. In the meantime, when
the armed rebels saw the fire, they issued out of the
house and came to the yard of the palace. The hero
Jonarājānaka came there in his anger, and a certain foot
soldier killed two or three in the yard with his sword.
Then all the Madras united themselves in a body, moun-
ted the king's horses, and reached the skirts of Mūlaka-
nāga, and there they held a cosultation. "We should re-
main here" they said "and fight the Saidas; there are only
a few of the enemies left, and they will not be able to
save themselves." When Jyalāla Ṭhakkura, well versed
ir. politics, heard this, he said to them :—"This is not the
place for fight, let us quickly go by this road and cross the
Vitastā, and then let us remain on the other side with
our followers. There we will devise plans so that the
Saidas may perish of themselves." They appproved of
his advice, and the brave people crossed the Vitastā by