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

others. On the arrival of Āsāha Khāna, Merja Yosobha's
troops were scattered like the dust at the time when the
wind prevails. Then the illustrious Jyallāladīna sent his
two servants Āhlāda Khāna and Soltān Mahahmada
Kula Khāna. Āsāha Khāna knew them to be the
servants of Jyallāladīna ; he gave them the possession of
the country, and went to the feet of his master. These
two officers drove away injustice from Kashmīra, even
as the sun and the moon drive away darkness from the
earth. They ascended a hill near Shārikā in the neigh-
bourhood of Pravarapura, and there, under the orders
of king Akavara, built a fort with the inappropriate name
of Naganagarī. Men after performing various kinds of
religious austerities go to heaven in their second birth
after death ; but when the people saw this Naganagarī,
they did not attempt to ascend to this heaven. At this
time the houses in the city were occupied by the king's
soldiers, and the inhabitants suffered thereby. The mer-
chants saw this distress of the people and informed the
king of it ; whereupon the king removed the difficulty by
the following arrangement. The king's followers stayed
in the new town, and any one of them who harassed the
people was made guilty of an offence. The Muggulas, after
king Jyallāladīna had thus ordered, lived in the new town.
It was whitewashed with lime and was situated on the
Shārikā hill, and it looked as if it jeered at the old capital
in its neighbourhood. When the Yavanas had gone out
of the old city, the people held a festivity ; they always