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

64 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
anger, and Mahammada left the fort which looked
like a precipice. The stones and the guard could not
prevent his departure, while the noise of the waterfall
drowned the clanking of the chain in his feet. The
sons of his nurse then broke his chain, and they thought
that they broke thereby the friendship between Sūha-
bhaṭṭa and his friends. Sūhabhaṭṭa feared that the old
Mārgapati would escape as Mahammada had done, and
though he had robbed the old man of his money, he
killed him on the way. When the Mārgapati was killed
by the evil minded Sūhabhaṭṭa, all the people blamed
the latter, and wept as at the death of their father.
Sūhabhaṭṭa, for fear of the people, went about every
night under the guidance of skilful men, like a bird
fallen from its nest. To this helpless man the day was
as night and the night as day. Surely when fate be-
comes unpropitious every thing turns out wrong. As
a fisherman becomes sorry when a large fish leaps out
of his boat and escapes, so was Sūhabhaṭṭa at the escape
of Mahammada froin the prison; and he often thought
of Mahammada.
The people had nursed and protected Piruja, and
when they beheld him, they thought that he was Shi-
kandhara who had gone to heaven. Though Piruja
was the son of Shikandhara by his wife Shobhādevī,
Shikandhara had exiled him from his own country,
inorder to prevent a commotion. He was a prince and
was welcomed by the king of the north; and he now