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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. [p. 369]

the post of heir-apparent, in the month of Jaiṣhṭha, on
the tenth day of the bright moon. It was in the summer
of the year 6 that Mahammada Shāha was released
from the house of the Khashas, and was congratulated
as being born again, and was crowned by the minis-
ters. At this time Mereja Vābhora went to heaven,
leaving his possessions to his two sons Homāya and
Kāmarāṇa.
In the year 7, Kācha Chakrapati intended to fight
with the Mārgapatis, and he moved out with his army
from the village of Maurvvāra to a distant place;
and a comet appeared on the west, when he had
departed, as if the west had been his wife and had
held the comet on her head in anger on being deprived
of her love. Mahroma, the general of Kāmarāṇa, came
in the bright fortnight of the month of Kārttika, to
conquer Kashmīra. He was accompanied by Shikhāla
Bhiga, Mahmoda Khāna, and other Muggulas; and
they filled all sides with their strong and thundering
army. When Mahammada Shāha heard of this, he, by
means of the Mārgapatis, soon called in Chakrapati
with proclamations, for his help, and honored him.
The mlechchhas entered the city with thousands of
cavalry, and the Kashmīrians placed their soldiers
within forts. The citizens went out by different ways to
the caverns of mountains in fear, and as the mlechchha
soldiers outnumbered the Kashmīrian warriors, the latter
were destroyed. The Muggulas who had plundered