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Political Concepts in Ancient India
 
DURGA SAMPAT-(1) Wealth and equipments
of an ideal fort.
 
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(2) Vide AS' VI. 1 for a reference and AS' II. 3
for details.
 
DUŞYA (1) Seditious, as in the expression duşya-
mahāmātra in AS' V. 1.
 
(2) Any state employee or any citizen engaged
in sedition.
 
DAUVĀRIKA-The chief door-keeper of the royal
household. He is one of the 18 Mahāmātras.
(q.v.).
 
DROŅAMUKHA—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.
(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 Sadgunya).
 
(4) Kautilya 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 Sam. VII. 160° and Mitak-
şarā on Yujnavalkya Smṛti I. 347,¹ explain this
 
8. catuḥsatagrāmyā droṇamukham (AS' II. 1).
 
9. svärthasiddhaye svabalasya dvidhakaranam dvaidhibhāvah
1. dvaidhibhāvaḥ svabalasya dvidhākaraṇam.
 
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