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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 373
Chakresha and the Mārgesha, great on account of their
valour, held a consultation, and established peace with
the Muggulas. The Muggulas took nine pieces of
cloth, and a green coloured letter marked with the
words ‘Katephasohasaglata’ in Mausula character and
language. They returned from the presence of the king,
exulting with joy; they carried some idiotic men and
woman in the van of their army, but Hassana Mera took
pity on the idiots, released them, and brought them
back from the neighbourhood of Puṣhyat. Then in the
year 9, in the month of Jyaiṣhṭha, the Muggulas re-
turned to their country, taking with them by force the
wealth of the people, and by treaty the daughter of the
king. In this way calamity befell the sinful people
in the Satīsara country, and a comet was seen continu-
ally in the sky on the east and on the west.
Thus the ravages of the Kāskārians took place.
Stars fell from the sky on the fields where the full
harvest of rice was ripening, and a comet became again
visible. Even as a Rākṣhasa devours a king so did
this calamity devoured the grains; and there happened
a great famine, the destroyer of food. When Famine
entered the kingdom, his powerful soldiers, hunger and
thirst, the oppressors of the people, stalked about. One
khāri of grain was then bought for ten thousand pieces
of niṣhka,* and none but the rich could get it. Men
and women wandered about in hunger in order to save

• A nishka is supposed to be equal to a dīnára.
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