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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 419
intention to kill Kāji Āla. The Kāji fought several times
with him, and then fled. His horse perished in
ascending a hill, and he also went to heaven. Hasana
Bhiga, a servant of Jyallāladīna, fought heroically and
returned alive from the battle. The people said with a
loud laugh and without feeling any grief, that the riches
which the Kāji had hoarded by dishonest means was
consumed by his enemies. Alas ! why did he hoard
them ! Merja Yādgāra gave to his own people all
that had been accumulated by depriving the cultivators.
Merja Yādgāra turned aside from serving the feet
of king Jyallāladīna, and assumed the sovereignty of
Kashmīra. The inhabitants of the country, when they
saw this, became apprehensive of another war, and were
grieved. When king JyallāladIna heard of this conduct of
Yādgāra he marched without delay, and in his anger, he
spread his army on the ridge of a hill, and passed through
an almost impassable mountain road. He then sent Shikha
Phareda ahead with many men to subdue the Merja.
The Shikha ascended the top of a hill called Hastigañja,
even as the charioteer of the sun ascends the eastern
hill. At this time Merja Yādgāra arrived at the village
of Shūrapura, but he was killed by his own servants who
rose against him. When the people saw him lying
dead, and eaten by jackals and dogs, they spat on the
ground and at once said that he was "a rebel against
his master", and remarked that he had thought that he
should pay his respects, now that the glorious emperor