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

22 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
valour, he killed Timi, simply for taking some milk,
as one kills a timi (whale)." This message alianated
Tukka and other Shukkalaṅkitas from the king, and they
conjointly attacked him at Vimshaprastha. Vyāla struck
them with his sword, and expelled out of them their
pride begotten of wealth. The king fainted, and his
enemies believed that he had been killed, and that they
had obtained the victory. Their wrath was assuaged,
and ambitious of seizing the kingdom, they entered
the capital. The king, afraid of receiving another blow,
had for a short time remained like one dead ; but when he
saw that the enemies had proceeded to some distance,
he got up. By the time that these men of little sense
had reached the capital, they saw the king who had
recovered from his swoon, and was approaching them.
Then these impudent and poor witted men became
afflicted with sorrow, and asked one another whether
the king had not been killed by one of them, and they
quarreled among themselves. They robbed the palace
and became angry with one another, and they accom-
plished their own destruction, — a work which the king
should have done. The haughty king then impaled
the survivors, thus he lifted them high, but down they
went. The angry king ripped open by the sword the
wombs of his enemies' wives in the fort, who were with
child, as one tears open beans by the finger nail. The
violence of the king's mind inflamed by the treason
of his enemies was thus pacified by the destruction