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

by which the king has been released from the hands
of the Saidas, will be open to him again, for coming
out of the hand of the Khāna. This is the will of fate."
Jyahāṅgira despatched this letter. He was angry
with Masoda on account of his leaning towards the
Khāna, and took away from him the post of warder of
the road. He entrusted the duty of defending the
road to Vahrāmanāyaka and others, and sent Shṛiṅgāra-
rājānaka and others without delay to Sthāma. The
troublesome Masodanāyaka was enraged at being
deprived of his charge of the road, and he arrived at
Sūrapura following the Khāna. Masoda's followers, the
Khashas, and the Ḍombas, who had been deserted by
him, created a tumult in the Maḍava country at every
step. On the other hand the king's army harassed
the army of the Khāna, and the two armies
looked like the two rows of teeth of all devouring
Death. The tumult created by the Khāna was
greater than that caused by the Saidas; it was
like a painful disease of the throat, aggravated by
the burning of the foot. Travellers were attacked by
robbers, the weak were destroyed by the strong, and the
country was reduced to a miserable plight, as if it had
no king. The inhabitants of that part of the country left
their houses in fear, taking with them their kine and
wealth, and went to Dakshiṇapāra and other villages.
The two armies then entered the kingdom of Kṣherī which
with its woodlands was deserted by the inhabitants, and
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