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

274 KINGS OF KASH MÍRA.
the Juhilāmaṭha road. In the meantime Meyā Maham-
mada having obtained time, killed the doorkeepers,
the brothers Tāja and Pājaka in his anger. They were
pulled by the Chaṇḍālas from the yard of the palace
by a rope tied to the ankle joint, their limbs were bes-
meared with unholy wine, and they were devoured by
dogs. They were miserly from their birth, and had
collected wealth by obtaining bribes from villagers whom
they had oppressed. At the time of their death they
yielded up all their wealth. All that these avaricious
men had hoarded by oppressing villagers and robbing
others, all their fine silver and other metals came to the
king. People cannot recover from a miser the wealth
that once enters his house, like a sepent entering in a
hole, it can only be pulled out along with its life. One
hundred khārīs of rice with sugar cane were taken
away from the house of those who did not give even a
handful to beggars. Beggars had never received wheat
flour from them, enough to make a cake, but now when
their houses were robbed, the wheat flour which fell on
the road lay like snow.
In the meantime Ālikhāna came from his house
and arrived in an exalted state accompanied by soldiers,
and first of all he set fire to the houses in the neighbour-
hood of the Vālikā road in order to occupy it. At this
juncture Edarājānaka and others liberated the son of
Vahrāmakhāna from imprisonment, and he soon issued
through a by-lane. When the son of Vahrāmakhāna saw