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

306 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
were given to him by Brahmā. He was not satisfied
with destroying men by bringing together his troops ;
but like the submarine fire, the fire of his oppres-
sion was not quenched by the collected waters of the
rivers. When he oppressed men in town or in village
either through jealousy, or without any cause whatever,
no one could save the oppressed from his power. If
any one undertook to protect the oppressed out of
humanity, he was punished in the king's court by
more powerful men than he. Other avaricious officers
oppressed innocent men in their homes, even as
diseases oppress the body. What evils do not speedily
overtake the country where the king is a boy, and his
old supporters are independent and jealous of one
another and break down the administration of the
kingdom ?
Edarājanaka and Ṭhakkura Ahmada who had been
sent to countries outside Kashmīra returned to the city
on the plea of seeing the Mārgesha. But the Mārgesha
had heard certain rumours from his spies about these
ministers and had become alarmed ; he did not go into
the city, but went to his house in fear along with Saipha
Ḍāmara, and passed the night in fear on account of the
foreign soldiers that had been called in. When the
soldiers of whom the Mārgesha was afraid reached his
house, Ahmada Ṭhakkura killed Jonarājanaka in the
morning by the advice of the Mārgesha. Who did not
start in fear when he saw the dead body in the house