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

344 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
down, with a view to subdue him. When the Mār-
gesha heard that his son's house had been burnt
and his son captured, he went from Bhāṅgila to
Hinduvāṭa by the Kṣhuyya road. Now when the
Mārgesea had fled, his fierce enemies took Malleka
Abdālaka to the inaccessible house of Ladda the
Khasha. Utsa Malleka and Rājāna Shṛiṅgāra came
to the king, and at Varāhamūla intended to divide
the country of Kashmīra into parts. By the orders of
the king, they brought the men who owned lands in
Siddhā country, who knew how to divide land and
understood the work, and writers, and Kāyasthas
named Budha, Kashmīsha, Saṁkhyesha, and Jugaka,
and by their help divided the whole country into three
divisions. One division was given in writing to Phatā-
haśhāha,* another to Malleka Utsa, and the third to
Rājāna Shṛiṅgāra. The country was now divided
among these three great men, even as it had once been
divided among Huṣhka, Juṣhka, and Kaniṣhka. Then
the Rājarājāna Ḍāmaras came into the city, but they
did not lay aside the deep enmity of their heart,—the
enmity such as exists between a mongoose and a
serpent.
The king gave Utsa Malleka the post of the chief
minister, and to Rājāna Shṛiṅgāra he gave the extensive
estate of Siddhā. When Utsa Malleka, the arbiter of

• The reigning king.