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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 371
than those of the Turuṣhkas, even as the eclipse of the
sun is, than that of the moon. All living creatures
left the place, and the rows of houses looked like heaps
of corpses, breathless and frightful; and these incen-
diaries conquered the town of Sekandhara in order
to burn it. Hundreds of thousands of low houses
were burnt, and the city that had been populous
before new became like the ground for burning
the dead, fearful to look at with its charred
wood. Where will kings get two such capitals
in which millions had been spent in lime, wood, brick,
and painting? Shrī Jainanagara and Diddāmaṭha, which
had stood like images of the virtues of kings, were
deserted on account of fire. Surely the Muggulas had
evil sprites under their command, for they discovered
the hidden treasures of the citizens in their houses.
The leader of the Kashmīrian army took shelter in the
king's lands which were covered with water, in fear of
the mlechchhas. When the people of Chiroḍḍāra,
Aṅgakoṭṭa, and Chakradhara in Hājya country heard of
the acts of the mlechchhas, they spent three months in
fighting with them. The Khasha Dainyarūpa fought,
but without any effect, with the Kashmīrians who were
stationed near Chakradhara. The Turuṣhkas robbed
the crops, killed the villagers in anger, and made
Maḍavarājya unapproachable. Those persons, young
and old, who reached the level tract of Saṃkhayāshrama,
lived at ease, for they had yet a portion of their