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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 357
Arjuna Rājānaka then thus addressed the soldiers :—"Do
not, O ! mighty warriors, flee from the battle overcome
by enemies and leaving aside the virtue of heroes, but
march forward in phalanx." The soldiers marched forward
and entered the battle field, even as insects enter the fire.
After fighting with these great warriors Masoda was
returning with his army, when Gadāyamera received
the love of the women of heaven, (died) ; and when these
women saw that Puṣhpasāyaka, the son of Chakrī, had
been made a leader of the army, they soon snatched
him up from the field of battle. When the soldiers who
had been following him saw their leader killed, they ran
towards Masodamera and wounded him with an arrow
in his eye. Pierced in the eye by the arrow, Masoda-
mera, the chief among the bowmen, the son of Chakrī,
was killed, and he fell on the ground, and his soldiers
dispersed at his death, even as when the central
jewel in a necklace is broken the pearls in it are
scattered about. Among the enemies, Hosa Rājānaka,
Gājamera, and Shṛiṅgārabhaṭṭa were captured in that
battle, and were killed by wicked men. The army
of the Pratīhāra was destroyed ; it entered the town
and stayed there for two days, after which it went out
of the country in the same manner as it had come in.
The grief caused by the death of such a heroic son,
killed in the battle by the enemies, cast a gloom over
the mind of Kācha Chakra. When Tāja Chakra and
others of his relatives saw their leader thus sorrow-