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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 407

but in fear of Kāsema Khāna he retired to the top of a
mountain. He heard of the approach of Kāsema Khāna,
made up his resolution, and took to the mountains
which were difficult to be approached by men. He was
at that time attended by a handful of men, while the
other was attended by many. Kāsema Khāna placed
Haidara Chakka in front of him, even as Rāma had
placed Sugrīva, and fought a great battle. When the
Kashmīrian troops saw Chakka Haidara, they all fled
away, even as the darkness of night flies at the rising of
the sun in the morning. As a great mass of dust is
driven away by the slightest wind, even so the Kashmī-
rian troops were driven away by those of the Muggulas.
The former fled, and the latter became victorious ; and
the women who had husbands and children raised loud
lamentations when they heard of this news. They had
lived like lotus plants, their hands had trembled like
lotuses, and so also their eyes under locks of hair, even
like blue water-lilies under the black bees. Then when
the calamity came in like darkness, the eyes bright-
ened, like the blue water-lilies, but the lotus like faces
shrank. Tear drops fell on the breasts of these women,
as if to quench the fire that was burning within
their heart. The soldiers entered the city on Sunday,
the second lunar day of the bright fortnight of Kārttika,
in the Shaka year 1509. The city was full of grapes
and walnuts, and was adorned with flowers and saffrons,
and the Yavanas who entered it fully confessed that it