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

310 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
Ṭhakkura Daulata and others had departed from
Kashmīra, and had been living at Rājapurī. They
now took shelter under the Khāna, as the black-bees
take shelter in a tree, and the Khāna obtained great
reputation, even as the son of Vupyedeva had obtained
before. Masodanāyaka had the charge of defending
the road, and though he was related by marriage to the
Mārgesha, he went over to the side of the Khāna. The
message of the arrival of the son of Ādamakhāna was to
the poor villagers, oppressed by many masters, like salt
sprinkled on a wound. The guilty, the debtors reduced
to servitude, the thieves, the wicked, and the destitute
were glad to hear the news about the Khāna. Who
did not in village and in town leave his home and kin-
dred and come to him, fixing his hope on his kingly
fortune? The wealthy Khāna received many men who
had come from the country, and obtained fame, and
wished to rival the king. The people from all the king-
doms took shelter with him, discarding others, and they
exclaimed that he was a worthy grandson of king Shri
Jaina. When the thieves and others, who had remained
concealed, heard of him, they jumped out in gladness as
the fishes do in large tanks. But even as a tree is afflic-
ted by insects so was the king afflicted by the thought
that he had not a large army, that when one foe had
been conquered there still existed another mighty anta-
gonist, that the country was besieged by powerful
enemies who had won over the servants and spies of