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

336 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
to the trees of the garden. It was owing to a
change in manners and customs, or to the unjust
acquisition of wealth, or to the oppression of
the good, or to the admixture among men of the
higher castes, or to the weakness of the boy king,
or to the enmity of the ministers, that this calamity
befell the people of the kingdom, even like the one in
the reign of king Sussala. Let Saipha Mallika, the chief
of the Ḍāmaras, the meritorious leader among the
ministers, the one without a rival, be victorious! He
had before, during the war of the Saidas, liberated in
battle those who had been captured; he attained
prosperity according to the ways approved by saints;
he conquered the enemies and destroyed them and
obtained fame; and he gave an extensive kingdom to
king Phatiha.
Here ends the fourth book named the acquisition
of the kingdom by Phatihashāha of Srī Jainarājatarangiṇī
composed by Paṇḍita Shrivara.
‘This is the end of Shrīvara’s Rājatarangiṇī.