Political Concepts in Ancient India /114

Political Concepts in Ancient India
 
DURGA SAMPAT--(1) Wealth and equipments
of an ideal fort.
 
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of an ideal fort.
(2) Vide AS' VI. 1 for a reference and AS' II. 3
for details.
 
DUŞ
for details.
 
DŪṢYA --(1) Seditious, as in the expression duşya-
ūṣya-
mahāmātra in AS' V. 1.
 

(2) Any state employee or any citizen engaged
in sedition.
 

in sedition.
 
DAUVĀRIKA--The chief door-keeper of the royal

household. He is one of the 18 Mahāmātras.

(q.v.).
 

 
DROŅṆAMUKHA—A central town in a block of

four hundred villages. One court of justice under
a Dharmastha is to be located in such a town.
catuḥśatagrāmyā droṇamukham (AS' III. 1).
 

One court of justice under a Dharmastha is to be located in such a town.
(AS' III. 1).
 
DVAIDHAM--See Dvaidhibhāva.

 
DVAIDHĪBHĀVA—(1) Duplicity.
 

(2) It is also called Dvaidha.
 

(3) It is one of the six modes of foreign policy
(see Sad
(see Ṣāḍgunya).
 
ṇya).
(4) Kautṭilya explains that it is the strategy of

pursuing the policy of peace (sandhi) and the

policy of hostility (vigraha) at the same time.

Cf. sandhi-vigrahopādānaṁ dvaidhībhāvaḥ (AS'

VII. 1).
 

(5) Kulluka or Manu Samṁ. VII. 160° and Miītak-
ş
ṣarā on Yuūjnñavalkya Smṛti I. 347,¹ explain this
 
8. catu
svārthasiddhaye svabalasya dvidhākaraṇaṁ dvaidhībhāvah
dvaidhībhāvaḥsatagrāmyā dro svabalasya dvidhākaraṇamukham (AS' II. 1).
 
9. svärthasiddhaye svabalasya dvidhakaranam dvaidhibhāvah
1. dvaidhibhāvaḥ svabalasya dvidhākaraṇam.
 
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