War in Ancient India c12.77

c12.77

⁵⁰ It is interesting here to compare similar institutions in ancient China. L. Giles has translated the Sun Tzu or the Art of War from the Chinese, and this is very valuable to students of Chinese history. Here also five classes of spies are distinguished. These are local spies, inward spies, converted spies, doomed spies and surviving spies. Local spies are those recruited from the local District. The officials of the enemy were used as inward spies. The enemy's spies who were won over to the conqueror's side were converted spies. Doomed spies were those who gave false report to the enemy about his own state in order to deceive the latter. Surviving spies were those who got news from the enemy's camp. The functions and qualifications mentioned are quite in agreement with the Kauṭalīya (pp. 164 ff), (London, 1910).