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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 315
army with a view to subjugate his enemy.. At Karāla
his soldiers destroyed the powerful soldiers of the king,
and robbed and killed the helpless inhabitants. At
this time, the Mārgapati took the boy king with him
and went out of the city accompanied with troops, in
order to overcome the enemy. During the disturbance
caused by the Saidas, the people had been frequently
plundered of their property ; and they were therefore now
filled with alarm, and they sent away their women from
the city to villages. The city was without a king, and its
wealth had been taken away from it, and it did not
look imposing ; it was like a beautiful woman who
had been robbed. The Mārgapati encamped in a
garden at Gusikoḍḍāra, and his troops cried out against
the insolence of the foreign soldiers. But when he
heard that the Khāna was at Kalyāṇapura, he left the
king at Gusikoḍḍāra, divided his army into three
divisions, and came out for battle. When he arrived
at the extreme boundary of the village of Drābha in
Sakhānamaruga, he found himself in the neighbourhood
of the Khāna, and he remained there in great anxiety.
Vaidūryyabhaṭṭa, whose power was irresistible at Chakra-
vāṭa and other places in Kramarājya, stationed himself
on the mountain road on the west. The sons of
Gakkarāja and others, with Pirvaja the Pratīhāra,
came forward and manèuvered as on a chess board. On
one side the sons of Masodanāyaka, accompanied by
the Kashmīrian and the foreign soldiers, came out of