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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 285
moved forward along a difficult path over a causeway,
but fell into a moat and died while fighting. There the
heroes Ahmada the Pratīhāra and others displayed
their valour in the field of battle, and won the pleasure
of the company of the celestial women by their death.
Though Dāvoda is dead, the wives of the citizens still
remember his handsome features and declare that they
never saw beauty like his. Is it that the gods feared to
take so handsome a person to the celestial abode, and
therefore left his dead body on earth ?
In the meantime Haibhatakhāna and others arrived by
another route from behind and destroyed the valiant
soldiers in front of the khānagāha. They obtained the
victory, but with their uplifted arms they looked like
men possessed by devils ; and in their anger they killed
the citizens who had come that day to witness the
battle. What more should be said of them ? Impelled
by avarice, they killed two or three messengers who had
come from foreign countries and had stayed in the house
of Brāhmaṇas, saying that these messengers were
Madras. Saiphaḍāmara released several persons from
imprisonment, and fought with the army of the Saidas,
and pierced the shields of the citizens and the Saidas.
The soldiers of the Saidas were angry with the learned
physician named Yavaneshvara, believing that he helped
their enemies, and they killed him in his own house.
The Saidas committed barbarous acts ; they cut off the
physician's head from his body, smeared the body