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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 305
had reflected one another like mirrors, were dimmed
by the deceitful breath of their servants.
The other ministers were unable to brook the high
position of the Márgapati which had descended to him
from his ancestors, even as Chakravāka is unable to
bear the high position of the moon. The Márgapati
heard his attendants say that while he had fled
through fear of the Saidas, his attendants had killed
them ; but nevertheless he had now become the
principal personage in the king's court, and boastful.
On hearing such remarks, the Márgapati became
indifferent to the affairs of the king through anger
and disgust. Jonarājanaka had rendered himself an
object of the peoples' curse for having plucked out
the eyes of Vahrāmakhāna and on account of the
supremacy which he exerted by the strength of arms.
And this cruel man became among the ministers even
as Rāhu is among the planets by his injustice in
bestowing rewards and inflicting punishments. He
plundered, unopposed, the villages in Chhundānaka
and in other tracts, robbed the people and took
possession of their lands, and made himself master of
those places. During the time of the mutual disunion
among the Saidas, he had robbed the people and
obtained various articles from different places, and
had filled the granaries of his house. This avaricious
man forcibly took away the riches which the people
had earned and saved by their own labour, as if they