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

320 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
Mausulas, and are ashamed to follow the shāstra
which was followed by their fathers and grand-fathers.
Men of the four castes had graced the kingdom in
former days, but latterly the people had gradually adopted
blameable practices, and the ceremonies prescribed
for special days in the Purānas came to be forgotten
year by year. Why should not the people whose
custom is bad suffer calamities?
The Mārgesha heard a false rumour that the king
had been attacked by the enemy, and he became
anxious. He placed Tājabhaṭṭa and others in his
post, and went to his own tent. If he had pursued
the fleeing and powerless soldiers of the Khāna, not
one of the retreating army would have survived. But
the Mārgesha was unacquainted with the road, and all
his men had accepted payment from both sides, and
intending to promote their own interest in this world
and wishing misery of their relatives, they induced the
Mārgesha to retire from the battle, and they themselves
dispersed. The victorious Jyahāngira then took the king
and the army with him, and elated with victory went to
Jyamālamaruga. Tājabhaṭṭa thought that the people
who had been left behind by the Mārgesha had joined
the Khāna, and he set fire to the villages of Mangalya-
nādaga. The smoke which arose from the flames of
the burning houses covered the sky and looked like
clouds in the rainy season streaked by lightnings.
Conflagration and robbery were now witnessed in