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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 405
there is fear of being struck by stones; some places
are always cold, and some are always hot being
exposed to the rays of the sun. Bullocks, elephants,
and horses ate in these mountain tracts the new and
tender shoots of grass which was grown by copious rain.
These men from Madhyadesha beheld the arrangement
of the mountains, made enquiries about the trees they
met in villages, and they were greatly filled with wonder.
When the troops had ascended the top of a hill, they
looked like Yama at the end of a kalpa. They smoothed
passages over impassable tracts by means of boulders of
stone, they alarmed the elephants which were in groves,
they cleared the groves, and made torrents of water flow
over table-lands. The inhabitants of these mountains
were struck with fear at the prowess of the emperor, and
at the sight of his army; and they came to Kāsema
Khāna bringing him presents of goats and citrons. As
men catch birds by giving them bits of meat, as fish is
caught in the water by means of hooks, as skilful men
induce animals to come near by throwing corn at them,
even so did Kāsema Khāna overcome the inhabitants of
the country by distributing wealth among them. His
army was in want of a person to show the road to
Kashmīra, and Haidara Chakka offered to do this act of
enmity towards Yākobha.
At this time Bahrāma Nāyaka was in charge of
efending the road to Kashmīra. He felt uneasy on
account of fear for Yākobha ; he stationed his men in