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

KINGS OF KASHMÍRA. 65
came back bringing with him Mahammada, inorder to
conquer the people of Kashmīra. When Sūha heard
that Piruja had come with the Turuṣhka soldiers, he
sent ShrīLadda and Gauraka to oppose him. The
Turuṣhka army was destroyed by the wisdom of Shrī
Laddarāja and by the valor of Gauraka, even as
disease is destroyed by gift and prayer. Relieved of
fear, the minister Sūha made Laddarāja, lord of Kampana,
and Gaurabhaṭṭa, lord of Kramarājya. As in the even-
ing which darkens the mountains, neither the sun nor
the moon is visible, so when Sūhabhaṭṭa, who had
made himself felt by the king, became powerful, neither
the king nor the heir-apparent could raise his head.
The hawk kills other birds, the lion destroys other
animals, the Vajra-jewel pierces other jewels, and the
brilliant sun throws about the planets like flowers, and
thus destruction seems ever to be caused in this world
by one’s own people. Though the king ShrīShikan-
dhara was often instigated by Sūha to persecute the
twice-born, he, whose purpose was tempered by kind-
ness, fixed with some dfficulty, a limit to the advance
of the great sea of the Yavanas. But Sūha passed the
limit by levying fines on the twice-born. As the night
prevents people from seeing any thing but darkness, so
this evil minded man forbade ceremonies and processions
during the new moon. He became envious, and appre-
hended that the twice-born who had become fearless would
keep up their caste by going over to foreign countries ;