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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 415
of a lion, rose from the two armies, as if the noise issued
from the teeth of Yama eagerly crushing men. A great
and a tumultuous battle was then fought, terrible to the
gods and the asuras, and a touch-stone to test the worth
of great warriors. The Kashmīrians hurled stones
which shook numberless branches of trees, as if the
arms of those trees trembled in fear at the sight of the
battle. In the never ceasing shouts of the great warriors
it seemed as if the hills cried out in fear. The arrows
discharged, by the warriors covered the trunks of large
trees and looked as if their hairs stood upon their
bodies at the sight of the tumultuous battle. The
Muggula army fought in diverse ways, and felt satisfied ;
but Yākobha saw his army broken, and became
uneasy with fear. He thus said to himself :— “I believe
that my soldiers have been devoured by the Yavanas, even
as the moon is devoured by Rāhu ; how can I alone
cope with the mlechchhas in this sea-like battle ?” He
then retired alone from that place, and came to Kāsh-
ṭhavāṭa, feeling humiliated day by day.
Now Yosobha Khāna returned to Jyallāladīna in order
to serve him, and his brother Merja Barddhaka took
possession of Kashmīra. All men felt happy when he
sat on his seat of judgment, even as the chakara bird feels
happy when the moon ascends the eastern hill. Once
upon a time a merchant killed a person in the merchant’s
house ; a piece of the corpse of the murdered man was
thereupon tied round the merchant’s neck, and he was