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

314 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
was devastated by the two armies as by a great fire. On
one occasion, Jeraka and others came to know through
their spies that the soldiers of the king were asleep, and
they attacked their camp. The king's soldiers did not
keep themselves awake, nor employed spies, nor had
learnt to wield their weapons, they fled like beasts
in fear from the camp. Some relatives of the com-
mander of the king's army were alienated from the
king's cause by the enemy. They left the king's army,
took shelter with the enemy, and rebelled against the
king. When differences arise among the strong and
powerful in Kashmīra and the government is paralysed,
then the Khashas who live beyond Kashmīra begin
to rejoice; the people suffer from plunder and
conflagration, thieves accumulate wealth, the enemy
seeks for riches, and the soldiers, heroic and enduring,
desert their cause. When the commander of the army
saw those people rebel, and found that the zeal of his
troops had relaxed, he was struck with fear and fled
from the army; but he was killed by soldiers who
came up from behind. The Khāna was glad of this first-
victory by which he obtained everything. It was by the
advice of Subhāgasīha that the Khāna had come unop-
posed from the Turuṣhka country, but Subhāgasīha was
killed by some unknown person as he was going away
from before the presence of the Khāna.
Now the Khāna, happy and exulting in his victory,
encamped at a place called Maliashilā and collected his