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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 355
and others, and die surrounded with difficulties? Alas!
Alas! the vissisitudes of time!
This is the account of Phatāhashāha's going to
heaven.
Then came the noble minded Rājāna Shṛingāra, and
as if out of affection for the king who had gone to
heaven, he followed him. Eskandhara the king of the
country outside Kashmīra, the lord of Gaja, also went
to heaven about this time in order to see Indra. On the
death of Phatāhashāha, Chakra Nāyaka became afraid of
Malleka Jyaṅgira, Mera Khujyāhmada, and others; of
Ebrāhema Khāna, Shṛiṅgārabhaṭṭa, and others, who were
of the party of the late king; they were in the capital;
and in the month of Vaishākha, in the year 96, Chakra
Nāyaka caused them to be arrested. Chakrapati gave
Siddhā and other districts to the noble minded Rājāna
Hosana, the favoured of fate; these estates had be-
longed to the persons who were imprisoned. Unable
however to brook the prosperity of Hosa Rājānaka,
Chakresha, the chief among the intriguers, threw him into
prison within three months, and became free from fear.
He pleased his friends Malleka Chakra, Seraṅga, Tāje-
mera, and others, and fully gratified them by publishing
a proclamation of their dignity in the kingdom.
In the year 97, in the month of Jaishṭha, Malleka
Abdālaka and other sons of the Mārgesha joined the
people of the country, they took Eskandara Khāna the
son of Phatihashāha with them, and came with an army