War in Ancient India c11.63

c11.63

Each of these States, just like the central state, possesses respectively śakti or power which is power of deliberation (mantra) with its adjunct of intellect, and power of lordship (prabhu) with its adjunct of treasury, and activity (utsāha) with its adjunct of heroic valour.³³ He who possesses more of everything is superior to the other. Besides, each of them possesses the five veritable elements of sovereignty: the minister, the country, the fort, the treasury, and the army. These sixty elements with the twelve kings form the seventy-two elements of a State.34