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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[DECEMBER, 1909.
A powerless king should bebave As a conquered king towards his immediate enemy; but when he finds that the time of his own ascendency is at band due to a fatal disease, internal troubles, increase of enemies, or a friend's calamities that are vexing his enemy, then under the pretence of performing some expiatory rites to avert the danger of his enemy, he may get ont (of the enemy's court); or if he is in his own territory, he should not go to see his suffering enemy; or if he is near to his enemy, he may murder the enemy when opportunity affords itself.
A king who is situated between two powerful kings shall seek protection from the stronger of the two; or from one of them on whom he can rely; or be may make peace with both of them on equal terms. Then he may begin to set one of them against the other by telling each that the other is a tyrant causing utter rain to himself, and thus cause dissension between them: When they are divided, he may put down each separately by secret or covert means. Or, throwing himself under the protection of any two immediate kings of considerable power, he may defend himself against an immediate enemy. Or, having made an alliance with a chief in a stronghold, he may adopt double policy (i.e., make peace with one of the two kings and wage war with another). Or, he may adapt himself to circumstances depending upon the causes of peace and war in order. Or, he may make friendship with traitors, enemies, and wild chiefs who are conspiring against both the kings. Or, pretending to be a close friend of one of them, be may strike the other at the latter's weak point by employing enemies, and wild tribes. Or, having made friendship with both, he may form a Circle of States. Or, be may make an alliance with the madhyama or the neutral king; and with this belp he may put down one of them or both. Or when hurt by both, he may seek protection from a king of righteous character among the madhyama kings, the neutral king, and their friends or equals, or from any other king whose subjects are so disposed as to increase his happiness and peace, with whose help he may be able to recover his lost position, with whom his ancestors were in close intimacy or blood relationship, and in whose kingdom he can find a number of powerfal friends.
Of 22 two powerful kings who are on amicable terms with each other, a king shall make alliance with one of them, who likes him and whom he likes ; this is the best way of making alliance.22
Chapter III.
The character of equal, inferior and superior kings; and forms of agroemont made
by an inferior king (Samabinajyayasam gunAbhinivebah hinasandhayabcha).
A king desirous of expanding his own power shall make use of the six-fold policy.
Agreements of peace shall be made with equal and superior kings; and an inferior king shall be attacked.
Whoever goes to wage war with a superior king will be reduced to the same condition as that of a foot-soldier opposing an elephant
Just as the collision of an unbaked mud-vessel with a similar vessel is destructive to both, so war with an equal king brings rúin to both.
Like & stone striking an earthen pot, a superior king attains decisive victory over an inferior king.
Infoka metro.
