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

immediately espoused the women of heaven. The surviv-
ing Muggulas reflected on the heroic deter-
mination of the soldiers in the front, and on
the uncommon valour of the king, and they
returned in the same manner as they had come. The
chief warriors in the two armies wielded their arms
and sacrificed their lives, and they obtained great fame
and went to heaven. The king beheld the unparalleled
valour of the infantry, and gave them silver and other
metals which the troops in the front had acquired from
the mlechchhas. The Muggulas saw the reduction of
their own army and the increase of that of their enemies,
and went away even like the sons of merchants when
they are paid. Strong in his valour, Gāja Shāha was
accompanied by the king of Rājapurī, and he now
made the Pāṣhaṇḍas tributary to him, and returned to
his country. As he entered Kashmīra he heard the
blessings of the people saying :—"long reign O
king! lord of the empire, and always victorious!"
Though drenched by the tears of the weeping women
of the enemies, the houses of his foes were burnt by
the strong fire of his prowess, as by forest fire; and
when that fire had consumed the houses, grass began to
grow, watered by the tears of the female relatives of
his enemies.
The king saw conflagrations in different directions,
and there occurred earthquakes, and so he took council
of the soothsayers who thus said :—"In this country,