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

286 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
with sandal paste, and left the head in the king's high-
way. Some of these Rākṣhasas entered the city that
day, and as they were of a relentless disposition,
they killed all without discrimination.
When the citizens saw the head of him whose body was
smeared with sandal paste they knew it for certain that
the wicked crime had been committed by the Saidas ;
and who did not blame them ? The dead bodies lay in
the streets of the city from Mallekapura to Loṣhṭra
vihāra, and were like dried grass used as fuel. They
who had reposed on luxurious beds of cotton, reclining
at ease on pillows, were now seen lying on the ground,
naked, and motionless, emitting foul smell, devoured by
crows and dogs and wolves, and attacked by worms that
fed on fat and flesh.
The Saidas were satisfied with the victory, and they
celebrated their triumph with music within Vimshapras-
tha. If those who had fled and those who had re-
treated had been pursued, many of the survivors would
have been killed. But the gods of the country had
been plundered, and some of them had been burnt ;
and the angry deities did not inspire the Saidas with
the idea to pursue the enemy. The soldiers who were
crossing the bridge of boats, all tried to go in first, and
the bridge broke under their weight. Thus a hundred
men fell that day into the river, and being heavily
weighted by their armour, they sank and died in the
Vitastā. Surely the goddess Shāradā was angry at their