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tuskers made ready.' The daily onslaughts getting on, Kañci was brought under sway. On one spring day when the army arrays were moving across, the movement of the vassals was indicated by the tinkling of the bells of the elephants. The vassals were moving back to their own encampments with two or three lamp-bearers moving in front.2 Samaraketu describing his own adventures before Harivahana explains that after consecrating him to the status of a crown prince his sire Candraketu made him the leader of the whole army naval as well as territorial. And provided with a huge infantry he sent him attended by vassals, amatyas and chief feudatory lords, on an auspicious day'. Marching on his voyage Samaraketu established his own encampment with its open space made uneven by the tents of robed structure surrounded completely by the camps of the vassals (Samantas) giving thereby the impression that vassals accompanied the lord during his expedition, for rendering help to the ally (Kusumasekhara) against an enemy (Vajrayudha). Dhanapala has referred to the vassals of Samaraketu made to race off from their own mandalas in fright to inform their lord of the impending danger of and onslaught of the enemy.' He has also referred to the kings risen to power and puffed up with pride, perpetrating atrocities upon the people who were considered as the poignant wounds by Samaraketu. Some among them were subdued by the power of authority (tantrasakti) while others were brought to book by the power of counsel (mantrasakti). Some were done away with by the application of sharp weapons while others fell a prey to the acerbitous communiquês of the emissaries or fell a prey to the chemical elixirs or virulent poisons at the instance of the secret emissaries. Some were put to death by shedding off blood or squeezing out of blood while others met their doom by the employment of lethal poniards (or knives). Some were tortured to death by burning one of their sides while others perished along with their mandalas. Thus did he wrest them of their fever of pride. Some were restored to their original status or state of mind by the tying of the forehead wraps with the process of consecration and other such agreeable treatment of granting estates (lit. kingdom) affording bliss, when they had lost their status, had
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1. सामन्ताश्च सजीकृतसमदसामजघटा विघटनाय दुर्गस्य तेन कृतविसर्गः क्रमेण निर्जग्मुः TM Vol. II. p. 195. 2. पुरः सरद्वित्रदीपिकेषु व्रजत्सु निजशिविराणि तारतरकरेणुघण्टाक्वणितसूचितेषु सामन्तेषु TM Vol. II p. 197. 3. अर्पितानल्पपदातिसैन्यं च पुण्येऽहनिप्रधानैरवनिपतिभिरमात्यैः सामन्तैश्च कृत्वा ससहायं प्राहिणोत् TM Vol. II p.
251.
4. परिगतमशेषतः सामन्तशिविरैः, .........परिमण्डलाकारैः पटागारैः स्थपुटितावकाशं स्वावासमव्रजम् TM Vol. II. p.
267.
5. अतिजवेन निजमण्डलेभ्यः प्रभावितैरनीकपतिभिः सामन्नौ भयसम्भ्रान्तैरनवरतमनुसृतगतिः । TM Vol. II. p.
284.
