War in Ancient India c17.14

c17.14

— release by, of prisoners captured by Candragupta, 73. Kāvanmaram, 384-5. King, disposal of the slain, in battle, 53-4; — not to take active part in the actual operations, 245. Kingship in India, origin of, 3. Kirtivarman II, 293. Kodaṇḍa, same as bow, 93. Kodaṇḍacaturbhujam, 464. Kodaṇḍa maṇḍana, on the characteristics of a bow, 96. Korravai, 381, 382; — invoked by the Eiynar, 2. Kōvalan, father of Maṇimēkalai, 46. Kṛpa, 64; — mail armour of, 128. Kṛṣṇa, 9, 64, 178, 205, 348; — King of Dvāraka, 30; — ambassador from Vāsudeva to, 346; — bow of, 96; — the charioteer of Arjuna, 159; — embassy of, 339, 349; — navigation of the air, by, on his Garuḍa, 280; — on the law of warfare, 57. Kṛṣṇadeva Rāya, author of the Āmuktamālyada, 212; — and Ceylon, 296; — Council of, 206; — on the appointment of Brahmans to the military, 194. Kṛṣṇan Rāman, a Brahman military officer under Rājarāja, 194. Kṣatriyas, and the army, 190ff; — and asceticism, 54-5; Kṣatriyas, importance of the, 5-6; — mentality of, favourable for war, 8; — marriage of, 47-8; — outfit of the, 46-7; — training of the, 42-6. Kṣetrajña, position of a, 53. Kiesias, Indica of, 260. Kulaśekhara, 292. Kulottunga I, overseas relations of, 294-5. Kumāra, Crown Prince, 226-7. Kumārī, 249. Kumārāmātya Pṛthivīseṇa, Commander-in-Chief of Kumāragupta, 194. Kumbakonam, sculptures in the Sāraṅgapāṇi temple at, 143. Kural, the, on ambassadors, 350; — reference to spies in the, 354, 356-7. Kural-veṇbā, 384. Kurukṣetra, battle at, 183, 198, 236, 242, 246; — charcoal, a war material in the battle of, 103; — Commanders in the battle of, 221. — the historic battle of, 30-1; Kuśa, 35. Kūṭayuddha, 59, 60, 61, 81, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 235; — tactics in the, 272-3. Laghvarhannītisāra the, work of Hemacandra, 80. Laguḍa, a kind of weapon, 108. Lakkaṇa Daṇṇaik, voyage of, to the frontier of Ceylon, 295. Lakṣaṇaprakāśa, 98n, 105n, 106n, 107n, 109n, 111n, 112n, 113n, 117n, 118n, 166n, 177, 247n, 266. Lakṣmaṇa, 97, 111, 261, 281; — engagement of, with Atikāya, 125. Lalitā, war of, with Bhaṇḍa, 205, 207. Land fights, 236ff. Laṅkā, 17, 240, 249, 269, 280, 286, 343, 345, 346; — castle in, 252-3; — provided with Śataghnī, 105;