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

410 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
after plundering horses, elephants, and clothes. The
king had completely chastised the wicked at night during
which the sky had displayed its stars, even as a trader
displays his jewels ; but when the powerful sun forcibly
opened the petals of the lotuses in the morning, the
sky perspired dews in the effort to hide its jewels in a
hurry.
When the morning came, the moon set, and the sun
drove away darkness in an instant, all the Muggula people
collected together, and king Yākobha became very much
alarmed. He then withdrew from the city in the morning,
and the Yavanas, whose hearts were inflamed with anger
on account of the night attack, plundered the capital.
Kāsema Khāna knew that Yākobha had departed, but
he saw his own army broken, and still he was anxious
to achieve a victory ; he therefore marched by the way
by which Yākobha had gone. One named Alammāshīra
Khāna accompanied by many men bowed at the feet
of Kāsema Khāna. Alammāshīra was an inhabitant of
Tailagrāma, and he and his friend Shamsha Chakka had
once fought with each other. Phateha Khāna, a Muggula,
remained at Sekandharapura with a large army for
the protection of the city. A fierce battle was then fought
between king Yākobha and Kāsema Khāna in which the
Kashmīrians hurled stones, arrows, and iron clubs ;
but a quarrel again arose among themselves, attended
with the cry of “I am the king,” “I am the king”.
When king Yākobha learnt of this quarrel, he, at the