Narapatijayacarya 1.6

1.6

pattyaśveti | svarīdayī svaraśāstraṃ sampūrṇaṃ jānātīti svarodayī svarajñaḥ gaṇakastena hīnaḥ nṛpaḥ patyaśvagajabhūpālaiḥ saṃpūrṇadigvijayasāmagryā yukto'pi saṃpūrṇā vāhinī senā syāttathāpi bhaṅgamāyāti arthāt raṇātpalāyate | tāvattaraṃtīti | te dhīrāḥ svarajñadaivajñektasvarabalāḍhyāḥ bhaṭāḥ āhavasāgaram saṃgrāmasamudraṃ dorbhyāṃ bāhubhyāṃ daivajñoktāḥ vaḍavānale cakre no pataṃti | vaḍavāśvinī tanmukhe yo'nalaḥ agriḥ sa vaḍavālastasya cakre samūhe | arthāt svarāḥ svanāmamātrādyaḥ yāvadstamitā na tāvadeva saṃgrāmapāraṃ yānti ||

'Foot-soldiers, horses...' Svarodayī = one who fully knows the science of sounds; that is, a knower of sounds, an astrologer; a king devoid of such a person, even though endowed with the full equipment for universal conquest consisting of foot-soldiers, horses, elephants, and rulers of the earth, even if the army is complete, still meets with defeat, that is, flees from battle. 'Cross only so long...' Those valiant men, soldiers enriched with sound-strength as stated by the knower of sounds and astrologer, [cross] the ocean of battle, the sea of war, with their arms, so long as those [sounds] stated by the astrologer do not fall into the diagrammatic wheel of the submarine fire. Vaḍavā is the mare [Aśvinī]; the fire in her mouth is the submarine fire; in its diagrammatic wheel, its group. That is, as long as the sounds, such as the morae of one's own name, are not set, so long only do they reach the other shore of battle.