Indian Antiquary Vol 39

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[MAY, 1910.
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In view of averting the evil consequences of annatural occurrences, he (the conqueror) may collect money from his subjects).
When the enemy is fond of elephants, spies may delude him with the sight or a beautiful elephant roared by the officer in charge of elephant-foreste. When he desires to capture the elephant, he may be taken to a remote desolate part of the forost, and killed or carried off as a prisoner. This explains the fate of kings addioted to hunting.
When the enemy is fond of wealth or women, he may be beguiled at the sight of rich and beautiful widows brought before him with a plaint for the recovery of a deposit kept by them in the custody of one of their kinsmen; and when he comes to meet with a woman at night as arranged, hidden spies may kill him with weapons or poison.
When the enemy is in the habit of paying frequent visits to ascetics, altars, sacred pillars (stúpa), and images of gods, spies hidden in underground chambers or in subterranean, passages, or inside the walls, may strike him down.
(a) Whatever may be the sights or spectacles which the king goes in person to witness ; wherever he may ongage himself in sports or in swimming in water;
(6) Wherever he may be careless in uttering such words of rebuke as "Tut" or on the occasions of sacrificial performance or during the accouchement of women or at the time of death or disease (of some person in the palace), or at the time of love, sorrow, or fear;
(6) Whatover may be the festivities of his own men, which the king goes to attend, wherever he is unguarded, or during a cloudy day, or in the tumultuous concourse of people ;
(d) Or in an assembly of Brahmans, or whenever he may go in person to see the outbreak of nre, or when he is in a lonely place, or when he is patting on dress or ornaments, or garlands of flower, or when he is lying in his bed or sitting on a sest;
© Or when he is eating or drinking, on these and other occasione, spies, together with other persons previously hidden at those places, may strike him down at the sound of trumpets;
( And they may get out as secretly as they came there with the pretence of witnessing the sights ; thus it is that kings and other persons are enticed to come out and capta red.92
Chapter III. The work of spies in a siege. (Durgalambhopaye apasarpapranidhih.) • The conqueror may dismiss a confidential chief of a corporation. The chief may go over to the enemy as a friend and offer to supply him with reoraits and other help collected from the conqueror's territory; or followed by a band of spies, the chief may please the enemy by destroying a disloyal village or regiment or an ally of the conqueror and by sending as a present the elephants, horses, and disaffected persons of the conqueror's army or of the batter's ally; or a confidential chief officer of the conqueror may solicit help from & portion of the territory (of the enemy), or from a corporation of people (treni), or from wild tribes; and when he has gained their confidence, he may send them down to the conqueror to be routed down on the occasion of a farcical attempt to capture elephants or wild tribes.
Chapter, 2, Book V.
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