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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 343
accordingly as they deserved. He was afraid of
Utsa Mallika, who remained with the king, and he led
him to an inaccessible house of the Khashas and there
confined him. For a month the Ḍāmaras enjoyed
wealth as great as that of the city of the Gandhara-
vas, and then, like low people, they fled from the
country out of fear of the Mārgesha. The account of
the act of enmity against Utsa Malleka reached his
brother Rāvatyadevaka, and he marched out and
surrounded the house of the Khashas. The Khashas
were alarmed, and they released Utsa Mallika from
Gaṅgā maṭha, and the two brothers felt great delight
in helping each other. They however felt anxious
on the approach of the Mārgesha, and oppressed with
the sense of danger, they took shelter of the king,
even as those who are oppressed with the powerful
rays of the sun take shelter of the strong kalpa tree.
Thus were the Rājāna Ḍāmaras destroyed in the
year 89, between the bright fortnight of the month of
Āṣhāḍha and the month of Āshvina.
In autumn, the Mārgesha crossed the frontier and
returned from the outer country. He divided the
estates in Kashmīra and gave something to all. To
his sons he gave the posts of authority in the king-
dom, and for a short time he lived in his native
country like a hermit free from fear. Now in the
year 90, Utsa Malleka and Rājāna Shṛiṅgāra caused
the house of Abdāla Mera to be completely burnt