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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 317
to the condition of a herd of animals by fear ? The
owners of estates, who had figured in the royal court,
were now struck with fear such as they had never felt
before, even like men who had never used arms. Only

• • • • obtained praise by dying like a
        hero. Three or four of his followers who wished
        to go to heaven fell in battle and went there before him.
        The great army of the Khāna having routed the survi-
        vors returned, and appeared before the Mārgapati mis-
        taking him to be of their own party. Hassana Mīra and
        other heroes who were determined to conquer sought
        Masodakhāna and were recognised by the soldiers of
        the Mārgapati. Nauruja and others, the five attendants of
        his wife’s brother, together with Gaurabhaṭṭa, were killed
        in the presence of the Mārgapati.
        Fate, that had been long adverse to the Kashmīrian
        army, now became favourable to it, owing to the prow-
        ess of the king or to the commendable firmness of the
        Mārgesha in this battle. He remained fixed with his
        troops like a strong and immovable column of victory.
        Had he retreated but one step from the place, nothing
        of this Kashmīrian army would have remained. As . the
        skill of a physician is observed in a serious disease, even
        so the skill of Shrī Jyahāngira was observed in bringing
        to order the disordered state. In battle, the goddess of
        victory comes pleased to him who in the hour of danger
        possesses indestructible energy, genius, skill in devising
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