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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 375
rest. The lean creatures were nourished by the produce
of king Food, and they always thought that they were
born again.
Thus the ravages of the famine took place.
Now Kāñchana Chakresha, by the orders of the Mārga-
pati graced the place of minister before the king, and
stayed at Janapura. Called by the Chaṇḍālas, Chak-
resha went to Maḍavarājya, but there he experienced
coldness from the Mārgapatis and he imposed a fine
on the land. At this time the men who lived at
ease in their houses grievously oppressed this great
country, even as a vile disease oppresses the body. It
was owing to the sin of these oppressions and through
the force of fate that the king Mahammada Shāha
fell ill at the latter part of Chaitra in the year 13.
When the king found himself attacked by illness, and
exhausted, he thus said affectionately to his minister
Malleka Laddabhaṭṭa :—"Though our body is nourished
according as we acquire virtue or vice from the per-
formance of our kingly duties, yet it is universally true
that the body is subject to destruction. Our ancestors,
kings Shamsadena and others, and Shrī Jainollābhadena
were great in our family, and I am born in their dynasty.
My mind had always been anxious to know who would
be obedient to me and to what extent ; and to-day that
mind is being consumed by fever." When the king
had said this and remained quiet, Mārgesha Abdāla and
others who were present saw his condition, and with