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Political Concepts in Ancient India
 
(2) Amara gives Vaāhinīpati as a synonym.5
senānirvāhinīpatiḥ (Amarakośa, Kṣatriyavarga).
(3) The first of the eleven Ratnins (q.v.).

 
SENĀPATI --(1) A general who is in command of

ten Padikas while the Padika is in command of
ten Angas
ten Aṅgas. aṅgadaśakasyaikaḥ patiḥ padikaḥ padikadaśakasyaikaḥ
senāpatiḥ (AŚ. X.56). This officer was in charge of the

training of all the branches of the army in

respect of position, expedition, signalling, etc.

(AŚ. II. 33).'
 
1 Cf. P. C. Chakravarty, The Art of War in Ancient India,
p. 80
 
3.
(2) One of the 18 Tiīrthas (See Tiīrtha).

 
SENĀMUKHA--A unit of army comprising three

Pattis, or in other words, 3 chariots, 3 elephants,

9 horses and 15 footmen. (AW AI, p. 83).
 

 
SAUVARŅṆIKA--A royal officer engaged to super-

vise the trade of the goldsmith and the silver-

smith etc. (vide, AŚ. II.13).
 

 
SKANDHĀVĀRA—(1) A military camp. Another

word often used in this sense is Śivira. But,

Śilpatantra, a work of unknown date, seems to

maintain a distinction between the two terms.

A military camp, of a person desirous of conquests

and equipped with the four-fold army, situated

either at a foreign country or in his own, is
called a S
called a Śivira, while to be called a Skandhāvāra

an actual fight between two kings must take

place at the vicinity of the camp.³
 
5. senānirvāhinīpatiḥ (Amarakośa, Kṣatriyavarga).
 
6. angadasakasyaikaḥ patiḥ padikaḥ padikadaśakasyaikaḥ
senapatiḥ (AŚ. X.56).
 
7. Cf. P. C. Chakravarty, The Art of War in Ancient India,
 
p. 83.
 
8. Ibid,, p. 106.
 
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