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

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Shṛiṅgārasīha, and alienated him from Gadāyarāvatra
Mukha. The king of Rājapurī took with him the son
of the Mārgapati, and desiring to establish peace,
prevented the calamity of a battle between the two
armies. Others at this time resolved to get hold of
the son of the Mārgesha, to whom the king of Rājapurī
had not paid any special attention, and the ministers
became alarmed. When fate becomes adverse to
the king and his subjects, the distress that befals their
party cannot be removed even by a hundred remedies.
When one is oppressed by mental anxiety, how can
then the disease which has got a firm hold on him be
removed by the skill of physicians? The partisans of
the Khāna alienated the king of Rājapurī from the
party of the Mārgapati, and when that king left the side
of the Mārgapati, a tumult arose which alarmed both the
armies. Gakka, Shṛiṅgārasīha, and others were alarmed
and went to Rājapurī; and the Khāna with his army
was struck with fear, and retired as before, without
effecting anything. Jerāka, Mera, and others, who, owing
to their love for Jyallāla Ṭhakkura, had resolved to
remain neutral, went to the Mārgesha. The confusion
which thus arose made the army of the Khāna tremble;
and it broke up into thousand parts, even like a river
whose embankment is destroyed.
When the Mārgapati heard of this, he pursued the
Khāna, and arrived with his army at Sūrapura. But his
anxiety became great, when he learnt from his spies that
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