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

16 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
At this time, Ḍalacha, commander of the army of the
great king Karmmasena, came to Kashmíra, as comes
a lion into the cave of the deer. He brought with
him sixty thousand mounted force, as if intending to
conquer and bestow as many villages to his army. The
bad king intended to send back Ḍalacha by granting
him a subsidy, and imposed a tax on the people
of all castes. The Brāhmaṇas, as if to expiate, by the
sacrifice of their lives, the sin of having received gifts
before from such a king, determined to die by fasting.
At this time the Kālamānya Bhoṭṭas [Bhuteas], who
had become the enemies of Vakatanya, deceitfully
killed him with his friends and relatives. But one of
Vakatanya's sons, named Riñchaṇa, respected for his
great intellect, escaped the massacre by chance, and
was to the Kālamānyas what the fire is to the forest.
He joined Vyāla, Ṭakka, and others who had com-
bined together in council, and determined to crush
the poor witted Kālamānyas. Riñchaṇa sent word to
the Kālamānyas through a messenger that he had been
robbed of all his wealth, and asked to be enrolled as a
servant of the Kālamānyas. Riñchaṇa, a lion among
men, hid his arms in the sands of a river bank,
and waited to drink the blood of the Kālamānyas,
not to receive their wages. The Kālamānyas came
unarmed, and Vyāla and others, with their fire
like axes which had been hid in sand, destroyed
them like grass. Thus having cleansed the treason