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

386 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
messenger when he returned to him, he descended in
anger and in surprise from the top of the hill, but
ascended to the summit of great renown.
The king of Kashmīra encamped near the forces of
the enemy. He was graced by the presence of his sons
Shrī Shṛingāra Malleka, Ale Malleka, Khāna Ahmada,
Yosopha, Ebha Shāha, and by Khāna Shāhibhāja, and
by the ministers supported by their armies. He was
also attended by thousands of cavalry and swift horses,
and by hundreds of thousands of infantry in compact
masses furnished with bows, swords, clubs, bearded darts,
lances, iron maces, and with weapons named uphākas
used in nāgarandhras* and ashmarandhras.* As the
two well arranged armies approached nearer and nearer to
each other, the troops on both banks of the river began
to adorn the field of battle. Surrounded by a thousand
infantry, Gāja Shāha commenced the battle ; and by the
laughter and the sound of kettledrum, by the flapping
of the elephants' ears and the neighing of horses, and
by the roar of ashmarandhra he terrified the enemy.
When some of the Muggulas saw that hero approach,
they became disheartened and slowly issued out for
battle. The soldiers in the front and before the king out
of devotion to their master, severed the heads of the
mlechchha warriors in battle, even as the earthen covers
are removed from the pots. Haibhata Khāna was
wounded with five arrows, and yielded up his life and
* Perhaps cannon is meant by these names.