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Ganesh Thite
contains numerous details of Tantra-like ritual for the expansion and maintainance of empire and these details are not found in other encyclopaedic works. Secondly this work is mainly concerned with the duties of a king rather than his enjoyments. Therefore, this work contains little or no information on the subjects like Pakaśāstra, Kāmšāstra, Music etc. On the other hand some of the details of royal duties can be regarded as a special feature of the present treatise. Thus for example this work gives details of the religious festivals and duties to be performed throughout a year. Similarly there is a detailed description of pilgrimage and it may also be regarded as special feature to some extent. The remaining subjects like archery, horses, elephants etc. are found in other works also and no much new information is found about those subjects in this work. It may be finally noted that this encyclopaedia like other ones is more important for the magicoreligious details rather than the information of various arts and crafts it contains.
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