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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 345
all affairs, took his seat in court, people saw the
meeting of a jackal and a sheep of which they had only
heard before. When the one whose fleece is shorn,
the one who howls, met, the king gave his orders under
a closed cover in order to see how the meeting would
terminate. Then came Ebrāhema Mārgesha, the chief
among the ministers, well dressed, but full of ani-
mosity, and accompanied by Masoda Shāhi. His
army arrived at Varāhamūla, and the king's forces, with
Utsa Malleka at their head, entered Svayyapura, with
the intention to fight. When king Phatāhashāha saw
the two armies stationed one on each bank of the
river, he thus said to Utsa Malleka, the chief minister ;
"This Mārgesha, O! minister, has robbed us of our
Royal Fortune, which is to us even like a wife that
is married, because he thinks us to be cowards."
When Utsa Malleka heard this, he said to the king ;—
"O king, what mischief is not this Mārgesha doing,
finding me friendless and alone? But O! chief
among men, it is but seldom that a man sees a chintā-
maṇi jewel or a flower that grows in heaven, but
one never sees a man to prosper who is consumed
by the prowess of a king. Arise O! king, and fight ;
fortune is under the influence of fate." When the king's
soldiers heard these words they marched out for battle.
The Mārgesha marched along the road with his army
and came to Bhavatuṅga, while Utsa Malleka with his
forces entered Koshanatsa. There the two armies