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which is depleted due to loosing its army-mates on the battle beid is more harmful than the 7th variety, i.e. pariśrānta which is exhausted due to lack of food only. The oth variety called as hatägravega, an army-man, who has broken in the first ever onslaught is also more harmful than the 9th variety ie. pratihata army. 8 The 26th variety of army is cchinnapuruşavivadha, which is devoid of grains (food) and men (army) is a destroyer than 25th variety, i.e cchinnadhánya army. But our discussion and conclusion would affected Kautilya's sel.ction method as : all the three varieties are same in action and in facing the problems. All are devoid of army-men and grains. Further, the 8th, 10th and 26th varieties appear to be similar. Therefore, those three varieties should be in one single variety only 4. Variety numbers 14th, 3-th and 33th;
This discussion is also based on oiher three varieties i.e. 14th, 32th and 33th. The i 4th variety is namely. parisrta, the deserted army is staying without a leader 10 The 32th variety called as aswāmisaṁhata, which is not united with the leader (master or king), is also facing the same problem 11 The 33th variety is called as bhinnakuta, which is staying with having head-broken or without a leader, also joins in this variety 12 We would like to mark bere, that, all these varieties of Army are loosers in the case of leader. There is no necessity to divide them into three different varieties. 5. Variety numbers 16th and 18th;
The 16th variety is called as antahšalya, a soldier with having 'dirt inside, is worse than kalatragarhi 13 The 18th variety of army is bhinnagarbha, which have split-inside, is also not better than kupitamūla variety 14 But to recognise both varieties, we can see the similarites and both are same as usual. Because they have same problem, that is rivalry inside themselves. So there is no reason to place them in two separate varieties. 6 Variety numbers 19th and 20th;
The most interesting part of our objection falls in this para. graph According to Kautilya the 19th variety is apasrta army. which is defeated or pained by one country only and the 20th variety is called as atikșipta army, which is defeated by many couptries 16 Here, Kautilya says that, at the moment of battle, the 19th variety is far better than the latter one, i.e. the atiksipta army.16 But we would not like this clarification of Kautilya in some context. For a clear understanding, this example can enrich our readers mind in a better way.
Suppose, there are many countries namely 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D',...
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