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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 17
against his father in the blood of the enemies, Riñ-
chaņa came to Kashmīra with his friends through
fear of the many enemies that yet remained. In order
to destroy the prosperity of Rāmachandra, who was
like the sun on earth in his fullness, Riñcha, like a
Rāhu, was suffered to rise in the blue sky. Ḍalacha,
like a fire brand, harassed the country, and the
people of Kashmīra became like insects in that fire.
Ḍalcha and Riñcha blockaded the town in the east
and in the north, and the people first fled towards
the west and then in the direction of Yama [south].
Ḍalcha was like a billow in the water, and on the
hill, Riñcha was like a tempest, while the chief men
in the town, the prosperous and the rich, were struck
with fear. As the kite swoops on the young ones of
the birds thrown out of their nests, so the swift army
of Riñchana seized the people of Kashmīra. Riñchana
obtained wealth, plentiful as water, from the Bhoṭṭas,
by selling the people of Kashmīra, and reared himself
like a cloud, and covered all sides. At this time Ḍalcha
destroyed innumerable gods, and afraid of the excessive
cold of Kashmīra, went out by a good military road.
When Ḍalcha had left the place, those people of Kashmīra
who had escaped capture, issued out of their strongholds,
as mice do out of their holes. When the violence caused
by the Rākṣhasa Ḍalcha ceased, the son found not his
father, nor the father his son, nor did brothers meet
their brothers. Kashmīra became almost like a region
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