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

346 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
stayed, but soldiers came out from the main bodies
which were stationed on both banks of the river, as-
cended a hill, posted theinselves between the two
parties, and discharged showers of arrows against each
other. There Shirya son of the Mārgesha fought
with the enemies, and sacrificed his life, as if thereby he
gave a great offering to Padmanāga. When Shirya
Mārgapati fell, the victor Utsa Malleka relaxed his
exertion out of friendship for the deceased. The
great warriors and soldiers of the Mārgesha observed
this relaxation and came up by the Sarvvāshrama
road, and pursued the powerful Utsa Malleka who
was retreating. When Phatāhashāha heard this news
from Svayyapura, he took Rājāna Shṛingāra with him
and went from Sūrapura to Hinduvāṭa. Utsa Malleka
was hemmed in by the pursuing soldiers of the Mār-
gesha at the skrit of the village of Nyovā, even like
a lion hemmed in at the mouth of a cavern.
King Phatāha fled, after having ruled the country
for nine years ; and Mahmadashāha, who was supported
by the Mārgesha, then got possession of the kingdom.
In order to please the Mārgesha he made the
powerful Seha Eskandara his heir-apparent, though this
person had once attempted to murder the king. The
Mārgapati again placed his enemies in prison, and
once more graced his sons with kingly fortune. Utsa
Malleka lay in prison, secure in the idea that the
Mārgesha would not kill him, having bestowed his