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Glossary
on poetical fancy and poet's love of rhetorics.
In AS' a more rational classification is given
and the main varieties named there are :
Danda (staff-like), Bhoga (snake-like), Mandala
(circular) and Asamhata (detached).*
159
(3) In Manu Sam. VII. 187 f we have some va-
rieties of Vyuha named as Danda, Sakata (cart-
like), Varāha (boar like), Makara (shark-like),
Suci (Needle-like) and Padma (lotus-like).
VRAJA-One of the seven sources of royal in-
come to be supervised by the Samaharta. This
income occurs from eight varieties of animals
viz. Go (cow), Mahişa (Buffalo) etc. (vide.
AS II.6)
SA
SAKTI (1) The power of a King, particularly of
a King who is in a mood to attack (i.e., of the
Vijīgiṣu).
(2) There are three such Śaktis, viz. Utsāha-sakti
(the strength of marital spirit and physical
prowess), Prabhāvaśakti¹ (the strength of ma-
terial wealth and political supremacy) and
Mantraśakti (the power secured by superior
statesmanship and diplomacy and counsel).³
4. For details see P. C. Chakravarty, Art of War in Ancient
India, pp. 112-13.
1. It is also called Prabhu-sakti.
2. See S. Mookerjee, Political wisdom of ancient India.
Journal of the Bihar Research Society, XXXXV. parts 1-IV,
1959.
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on poetical fancy and poet's love of rhetorics.
In AS' a more rational classification is given
and the main varieties named there are :
Danda (staff-like), Bhoga (snake-like), Mandala
(circular) and Asamhata (detached).*
159
(3) In Manu Sam. VII. 187 f we have some va-
rieties of Vyuha named as Danda, Sakata (cart-
like), Varāha (boar like), Makara (shark-like),
Suci (Needle-like) and Padma (lotus-like).
VRAJA-One of the seven sources of royal in-
come to be supervised by the Samaharta. This
income occurs from eight varieties of animals
viz. Go (cow), Mahişa (Buffalo) etc. (vide.
AS II.6)
SA
SAKTI (1) The power of a King, particularly of
a King who is in a mood to attack (i.e., of the
Vijīgiṣu).
(2) There are three such Śaktis, viz. Utsāha-sakti
(the strength of marital spirit and physical
prowess), Prabhāvaśakti¹ (the strength of ma-
terial wealth and political supremacy) and
Mantraśakti (the power secured by superior
statesmanship and diplomacy and counsel).³
4. For details see P. C. Chakravarty, Art of War in Ancient
India, pp. 112-13.
1. It is also called Prabhu-sakti.
2. See S. Mookerjee, Political wisdom of ancient India.
Journal of the Bihar Research Society, XXXXV. parts 1-IV,
1959.
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UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN