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

384 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
In the bright fortnight of the summer month of the
year 37, Nājoka Shāha joined Kara Bāhudhara the son
of king Homāya, the chief of the Muggulas, and the
leader of the army of Amvara; and with a view of
conquest arrived in the Pāshāṇḍa country. When Gāja
Shāha heard of this attempt made in the country out-
side Kashmīra, he held a council and sent Malleka
Hosa Chakresha to the outer country. This high minded
Hosa Malleka encamped at Surjala with the chief
ministers Laula Malleka, Chakresha Pijya, Haibhata
Khāna, Khujyā Phatiha, Merālaka, and others, and
with ten thousand warriors and infantry, and innumer-
able tents. The country outside was covered with the
great Muggula army, even like the pure heart of a good
man with darkening sin. First the army of the chief of
the Muggulas and then the trocps of Pāshāṇḍa, who had
been neglected before, covered the whole of the Rājapurī
country. When the king of Kashmīra heard of this he
became angry, and set out with his army from Shūrapura
to Hinduvāṭa, in order to overthrow his enemies. When
the mlechchhas saw this great and powerful army of
Gāja Shāha, they melted away, even as a mass of snow
in the rays of the sun. Phatte Malleka and Luhara
Malleka soon came up to the powerful army of Gāja
Shāha. Now when the way to the fort was closed,
Phatiha Khāna and others raised their battle cry and
distressed the large army of the Muggulas. The king
of Rājapurī in fear of Gāja Shāha made peace with