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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 299
possible to take out the body of any particular man from
amidst the heap of dead warriors and soldiers. Those
who had been handsome and stout, and had lived in the
enjoyment of prosperity and pleasures in the kingdom,
now emitted a foul smell in the sun, and became the food
of dogs and crows. There lay like the red flowers of
the cotton tree, the dagger, the knife, the spear, the
club, and the mace, all smeared in blood,—weapons which
had once graced the soldiers in battle. The Mārgapat
remembered that the Saidas had burnt Rudra vihāra, andi
in his anger he caused Alāvapura to be set on fire.
The fire issued from houses in dreadful flame, and with
intolerable heat, and reduced the town to the con-
dition of a burnt forest. The fire, which rose from the
house of the illustrious Saida Hamādānakhāna, was like
the flame of anger for the injury done to the king and to
the subjects. When Bhākara and other chiefs had been
killed, and the others had fled, their Chaṇḍāla servants
began to plunder the city ; and in the confusion which
ensued, those who had been poor from their birth now be-
came rich, and those who had always been rich became
poor. Some searched dead bodies wherever they lay,
and found valuable articles on them, and became happy
even like the mendicants who rejoice in carrying skulls.
Fights took place among those who robbed and stored
the ill-gotten wealth in their houses, even like the fights
of dogs for flesh and bone. What one man had first,
purloined was again robbed from him by another, and