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Political Concepts in Ancient India
(2) Amara gives Vahinīpati as a synonym.5
(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. 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).'
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(2) One of the 18 Tirthas (See Tirtha).
SENĀMUKHA-A unit of army comprising three
Pattis, or in other words, 3 chariots, 3 elephants,
9 horses and 15 footmen. (AWAI, p. 83).
SAUVARŅIKA-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 Sivira, 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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(2) Amara gives Vahinīpati as a synonym.5
(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. 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).'
180
(2) One of the 18 Tirthas (See Tirtha).
SENĀMUKHA-A unit of army comprising three
Pattis, or in other words, 3 chariots, 3 elephants,
9 horses and 15 footmen. (AWAI, p. 83).
SAUVARŅIKA-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 Sivira, 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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