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

18 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
before the creation, a vast field with few men, without
food, and full of grass. Ḍalcha took away the strong
men from the country, and Riñchana established his
supremacy there ; when darkness covers the earth,
unchaste women find it to their advantage.
The king was now completely freed from the Rāhu
like Ḍalcha, but Riñchana like the lofty, high crested
mountain of the setting sun sought to block his way.
When the people saw the glowing Riñchana stationed
on the mountain that touched the sky, no one doubted
that the decline of the king's power was nigh. Riñ-
chana intended to pounce upon the city like a royal
hawk on a piece of meat, but Rāmachandra, the moon
of his dynasty, opposed him at every step. Riñchana
deceitfully sent a few Bhoṭṭas every day who came into
the fort of Lahara under the pretence of selling clothes.
And when the Bhoṭṭa people had thus entered Lahara,
Riñchana caused their weapons to drink the honey like
blood of Rāmachandra. The queen Koṭā was as the
Kalpa creeper in the garden of Rāmachandra's household ;
but now the strong armed Riñchana planted her on
his own breast. The king left the city in fear of Shrī
Riñchana. A Brāhmaṇa's curse destroys a race like fire,
nor is there a spot where scions of that race can grow.
Struck with fear, the king, like a jackal, entered a large
cavern in Maṇḍala. How should a sinful man meet
death in battle ? The cloud like enemy poured
the blood of the king's forces in battle, and dried up