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

334 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
before now became mute. What does not come to
pass with the reverse of fortune? When the king's
party was destroyed, the beautiful women who were
dear to the king, lived only in name!
Thus the king Mahmadashāha sat on the throne
for two years and seven months, and he was dethroned
in the year 62, in the month of Āshvina. He was then
brought from Vīmshaprastha, and given up to the
enemies by Phiryapāla. The Ḍāmara chiefs who had
assembled in the yard of the palace and in the residence
of the king gave Mahmadashāha a few attendants and
a maintenance allowance, and kept him under their
protection. He had hitherto lived under difficulties ;
and as long as he was a king, he had never enjoyed
the ease which he now felt through the favour of
the king's ministers.
The city had been plundered during the slaughter
at the time of the civil war of the Saidas, but now, when
a new king assumed the royal power, the Khashas robbed
thrice as much, but they did not burn it down. Some
principal merchants were deprived of the millions they
had accumulated; they saved their lives, but lived by
covering their bodies with grass. The foreigners bribed
the ministers, and the ministers allowed them three days
to plunder the city. The foreigners plundered in the
same way as the Kashmīrians had plundered foreign
countries when they had marched against those coun-
tries. What does not time bring forth? The industrious