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

358 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
ful, they asked him not to be dejected. Kācha Chakra
was not quite overcome with grief for his son, and he
issued orders to fight with the army of the Mārgeshas
stationed in the fort on the opposite bank of the river.
The soldiers of Kācha Chakra were eager to fight with
those of the enemies, but the people of the village in
their sorrow did not know how to act. The valour of
the Mārgeshas was well known; but when they saw
that the strength of Chakresha was directed against them,
they retreated with the Khāna. When the army had
gone away in the manner it had come, the victorious
Chakresha, accompanied by the king, but oppressed
with sorrow, entered the capital. This powerful minister
saw the hero Daulata, patient, possessed of worth, and
foremost among warriors, and he felt no fear, but gave
him, who was his brother's son and who was skilful in
wielding the bow, all his deceased son's villages and
estates.
Now in the year 98, the Mārgapatis took the prince
Habhebha Khāna with them and again came from the
Chaṭikāsāra hill. By the time they had stationed their
forces at Tāmasīmarugāsthāna, the soldiers of Malleka
Kācha Chakra entered Sandhapura. As the Mārgapatis
had but a handful of soldiers, and as they had once ex-
perienced the valour of the Chakrīs, they did not des-
cend from the mountain road into any village. The
soldiers of the Mārgapatis were less in number than
those of Chakresha, and from among them again Eda