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

278 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
in the city, and all the people in the city, in village, and
in town became excited and ran about with arms. The
people of Shamāla, Vaṁgila, and other places, and
those who were at Kramarājya, turned Sthāmārtha on
the banks of the Kṣhiptikā into a camp. Vaidūryya-
bhaṭṭa who was at Sthāma, arrayed himself for battle
together with Chakka, Vākka, and others of Darad, and
with the valiant warriors of that country. Pammarājānaka
and others had collected the people of Nīlāshva, and in
order to reach Sthāma near Dugdhāshrama, they
crossed over to the other side of the Sindhu. Heaps of
paddy were brought by boatmen from all places, and
with it the people of Kashmīra paid their expenses of
living abroad for want of money. They went by river
to two of their own towns but treated them as the
enemy's country: some houses they robbed and others
they burnt down. In these two towns, situated one on
each side of the river, five or seven men died
every day in camp by arrows discharged from bows. The
Khashas, the petty chiefs on the frontier, men who
had a few retainers, they who had no houses, and who
had nothing but their name, the Khānas, the strong, the
poor afflicted by their poverty, theives who had committed
theft, men released from imprisonment for life, the
enemies of the king, the wicked who behaved like dogs,
those whose possessions had been confiscated, those
who had ability, and such people were glad of this
commotion in the kingdom.