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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 341

devoured by Rāhu. Malekāla and others, Soma-
chandra's sons, fled in fear from the strife, and the
minister Mārgesha Ebhrāhima performed the last rites
of Somachandra, by the orders of the king, and thus
pleased his own men as well as his enemies. The
illustrious Mārgesha gave the extensive estate of
Siddhādesha to his eldest son Maleka Piruja, and to
Abdālaka he gave the authority over the arsenal, and
he divided the other estates and gave them to his other
sons Malleka Luhara and others. This intriguing
Mārgesha also gave estates to Hosa Rājāna, Jyaṅgera
the Pratīhāra, and to the Ḍāmaras who dwelt outside
the kingdom.
When the minister Somachandra died and his power
became extinct, the indomitable Shirgabhatrīs and the
Vyadāyīs became free from all restraint and began to
prowl about. Man holds half of a rope in order to cross
a river, but adverse fate breaks his rope. It was to
destroy Somachandra that these Ḍāmaras, who had
been living outside the country, were brought in by
the king's orders; and they now rose against the
Mārgesha. The Ḍāmaras, the Pratīhāra and others broke
the bridge of boats and caused the Mārgesha to flee,
and thus drove him out to a foreign country. The
Ḍāmaras named Utsa Malleka, Daulatya, and others
obtained posts in the palace, even like the black-
bees in the forest. Then the Ḍāmara chiefs held
control over all the business in the court, and