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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 333
worn costly and various tinted robes and ornaments seven
times, and had then met death like an ordinary mortal,
even so it happened with the M rgapati. Fie to Fortune !
He arrived at the cavern of a saint, and forgot
his king and his former prosperity and his attendants.
His brother had taken away the king's wife, and for
that sin he became unable to escape, and got into a
boat with his wife. The soldiers of the Mārgapati
were humbled, they spent their days in the caves of
mountains, their complexion turned pale, and their
hearts were damped by the rain which fell to their
misfortune. Their powerful and unrelenting enemies
pursued them ; they were robbed of their clothes,
dragged, and forcibly thrown into prison, and confined
like beasts. The wicked enemies, the Khashas, shouted,
and plundered the country, and men and women left
all their property behind, and went about without
clothes in fear of them. The weak people were killed
on the road by the Khashas who remembered the injury
they had received from the Kashmírians. The disorder
which then prevailed in the kingdom was like that at
the end of a kalpa ; it was terrible. The condition in
the city was miserable ; the rich were robbed of every-
thing, the poor became rich, and the rich became
poor. The trees which had once been decked
with leaves and flowers and fruits, were now withered
in winter ; the rivers which had once flowed in waves
were now dried up ; and the kokilas which had sung