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(9) Our notes on Dandṇḍa would show that various

connotations of the term Dandṇḍa are accepted even

by the same authority. As such, the description

of Dandṇḍanīti, as comprising of policy and im-

policy, in consideration of a narrower connota-

tion of the term Daṇḍa may be justified even

though Dandṇḍanītī, with a wider connotation of

Dandṇḍa, may be identical with Arthasastra.
 
śāstra.
(10) =Raājanīti (cf. A. L. Basham, The Wonder

that was India, p. 79).
 
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(11) This science is also called Rāja-śāstra in the

Mahaābharata, Saārata, Śānti Parva. (vide, Jayaswal,

Hindu Polity, p. 5).
 

(12) Mitakṣarā on Yaājnañvalkya. I. 313, gives

the meaning of Dandṇḍanīti as Arthaśāstra.
 

 
DANDṆḌAPARUŞṢYA—(1) An assault. It is a legally

punishable offence. cf. AS.' II. 27.
 

(2) Kautṭilya names three varieties of it. They

are Sparsśana (touching the body of the opponent

by way of assault with hand, foot, etc), Avagūr-
n
ṇa (showing weapons like lances by way of

attempting to assault) and Prahata (physical

assault with any weapon). (See AS' III. 19).

(3) Hard or cruel infliction of punishment. In

this sense it is one of the Krodhaja Vyasanas

(see Manu Samṁ. VII. 48).
 

 
DAŅDṆḌAPĀLA --(1) One of the 18 Tiīrthas or Mahā-
ma
mātras (see AS' I. 18).
 

(2) = Dandanaṇḍanādhikaārī given in the Tilaka com.

(as one of the Tiīrthas) under Rāmāyaṇa II.

100.36.
 
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