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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 323

vious occasion, when in prison, Saiphaḍāmara had
dreamt that some one had severed his two legs by a
weapon at night. To keep a great chief, the head of
a strong party, in confinement, is like covering a fire
with a cloth. And so it happened. Why was he brought
from the fort of Jayāpīḍapura and kept imprisoned in
the city? This imprisonment of Saiphaḍāmara caused
harm to the Mārgapati.
Ebhrāhima the Mārgesha came up from the rear and
killed Shamṣhanāyaka and many other people. Ṭhak-
kura Ahmada, Jeraka, the Pratīhāra Anvaya, and others
had marched over sixty kroshas, and displayed acts of
courage. Some people suffer in times of danger, only
to achieve a royal station, even as the gold is melted
in fire and beaten by a hammer, in order that it may be
formed into a diadem which adorns the head of a king.
Set free from the bondage of a prison, like a bird from
a cage, the Ḍāmara thought as if he was born again.
Once before when he had been imprisoned along with
Hodara in the fort of Jayapura, he had scaled the walls
of the prison by means of a rope, and had come out
alone. But he was captured again when asleep, and was
kept in the prison of the capital, and his friends felt
certain that he would be killed within two or three
days. From such a danger he was now set free. In
time he came to the Khāna and remained with the
ministers as was expected. Such was Saiphaḍāmara,
and he obtained the fame due to a great man. Had