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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 63
betrayed his friend Mahammada. As a hunter binds
a sleeping lion, so did the Khasha bind him, as if he
had been an animal, and left him ; and those who had
come in search of him soon took him to Kashmīra. As
the monkey strikes the serpent rendered powerless by
incantations, and as the hunter scatters the mane of a
lion that is dead, even so a strong man may insult one
who is tied down, but what does he gain by it but
censure ? Fearing that the captive should run away,
they placed the honorable, but insulted Mahammada
in the great fort at Bahūrūpa. The new cloud at night
raises the hopes of travellers bound for a distant coun-
try by the light of its lightning but finally overpowers
them ; the lion inspires confidence in his victims by
looking backward before he springs on them. The
Saturn moves in a curve when it overthrows the Ram
and other constellations, so does Fate by a propicious
look inspire confidence in the sinful, but over-
whelms them in the end. Mahammada was consoled
by Shāha, a female servant, and was romoved from his
place of confinement by the sons of his nurse. Maham-
mada, when he was covered with perspiration, deceived
his sentinels by pretending to go to bathe. He entered
the bath, and thence he escaped. He then reached
the place where an opening had been cut by the sons
of his nurse, and he went out, as a swan does from
one great island of this earth to another. There
was a waterfall at Jampā deafening the ear as if in-