[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [Historical poems, biographies and chronicles](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical) › [Kashmirian chronicles and court poems](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir) › [Rājataraṅgiṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini) › [Rājataraṅgiṇī (Dvitīyā)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt) › 158 # Rajatarangini (Dvitiya) 158 English (machine translation) 158 - **Language:** English ### [158](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158) Having obtained water in the form of wealth from the Bhauṭṭas by selling the people of Kaśmīra, / the cloud of Riñcana, thundering, then covered all the quarters. ### [158.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158.p1) Covering the surface of the earth with an army of Turks, Tājiks, and Mlecchas, / Ḍulucya then arrived at the city, like Agastya at the ocean. ### [158.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158.p2) Like deer seeing a ferocious lion, or birds seeing Garuḍa, / the city dwellers fled upon seeing him arriving. ### [158.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158.p3) Those who fled were captured by him, as snakes by a snake-charmer; / some, fleeing in terror, entered mountain caverns. ### [158.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158.p4) Even the king remained somewhere in hiding out of fear, like an owl. / What then to say of the other people dwelling there? ### [158.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158.p5) A brāhman's curse upon kings has never been in vain: / consumption, once its signs appear, never turns back without killing. ### [158.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158.p6) The people who fell into their hands were first forced to yield their hidden wealth through harsh torture in captivity, / and were later sold by the Turks for horses. ### [158.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158.p7) Some were pierced, others bound, and some were maimed by him; / just as trees from fire suffer burning, drying up, or ruin. ### [158.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158.p8) Bound by a single leather strap through the collarbone, / it was hard for them even to catch sight of one another's faces. ### [158.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158.p9) Only for moments were the captives released by the Mlecchas to fetch loads of grass, firewood, and the like, / as mice \[might be let loose\] by cats. ### [158.p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158.p10) Those who once felt revulsion at food merely touched by a cat / were forced by hunger, while in captivity, to eat the Mlecchas' leftovers and cattle bones. ### [158.p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158.p11) Those who would not drink even the water of the Vitastā when thick with mud, / now, led into desert wastes as captives, drank urine in extreme thirst. ### [158.p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158.p12) "Where is the food of Mlecchas, and where our lineage? Yet hunger is unbearable—what use is learning? / Even now, sleep does not come on the road." Thus they thought within themselves. ### [158.p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158.p13) Whether they were walking, standing, eating, or even speaking, / there was not a moment when they were not forced to do work. ### [158.p14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158.p14) Some people were taken captive by Mlecchas, some by Khaśas, others by Daradas, / some by Bhauṭṭas, and some by Turks. ### [158.p15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158.p15) Leaving behind grain at home, wealth in the forest, and kin on the road, / others fled in panic out of fear of the Turks. ### [158.p16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158.p16) Pity, respect, and tender concern were abandoned by those fugitives / toward children, the aged, and frail women who were unable to flee swiftly. ### [158.p17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158.p17) The hungry did not eat on the road; the thirsty did not even drink; / what is more, panicked with fear, they did not even look behind them. ### [158.p18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158.p18) Some perished inside from hunger, some from thirst, some from fear, others from shame, / having entered into mountain caves out of terror. ### [158.p19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158.p19) Hearing that they had entered caves and desiring to drive them out, / those merciless Turks set smoke at the mouths of the caves. ### [158.p20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158.p20) The piles of bones of the men who perished inside from the smoke / and the black soot produced by the smoke can be seen at the cave entrances even today. ### [158.p21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158.p21) The king committed the wrong, but its fruit fell upon the subjects: / a woman's glance is wanton, but the cheek is bitten by teeth. ## Linked texts (1) - [Rājataraṅgiṇī (Dvitīyā)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja.158) — Jonarāja, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.158) · Pramāṇa