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

48 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
punishment had been inflicted on Brāhmaṇas, he took
courage, held out the fort, and did not despair of his
life. And when he and his people found that death
awaited them whether they fought or fled, they re-
solved on battle which is the avocation of Kshatriyas.
Terrible in battle, they discharged their arrows and
stones, and as they descended from the hill of Lohara,
their fame ascended to the skies. Lola the Ḍāmara
chief was struck by stones and perished with his deeds,
for who can escape the decrees of fate? The stones
discharged by the enemy covered the Ḍāmara Lolaka,
so that he was not deprived of burial, the last rite of the
Yavanas.
King Shāhāvadīna had exiled his own sons, but just
before his death, he had invited them to return by letters
written with his own hand. The eldest and the most
meritorious among them, the prince named Hassana,
came to Mahendramaṇḍala, and met with no opposition.
Here he heard of the death of his father, and shed floods
of tears, even as the pearl oyster sheds pearls, and as if
he thereby offered water to the dead. The following letter
of his father's brother, the king Kumbhadīna of Kashmīra,
made this pure minded prince continue his march, and
prevented him from retracing his steps : " King Shāhā-
vadīna has left us, his servants, out of his friendship for
Indra, and has departed to heaven. He has left us to
seek the company of the celestial Apsarās, and we have
performed the funeral rites which you should have done;