War in Ancient India c17.4

c17.4

— on the Superintendent of Horses, 176-7; — on certain kinds of swords, 119; — on the tenure of the office of the Senāpati, 226; — on the value of diplomacy, 300; — schedule of military officers according to the, 229; — spies during the period of, 354; — treatment of Mauryan public finance in the, 207-8; Āryadeva, on how to attack an enemy at his weak points, 62. Aryans, see Indo-Aryans, Asamanja, banishment of, 52. Āsana, 312, 318-20. Aśoka, 131, 233; — conquest of Kalinga by, 28, 89; — the dharma vijaya of, 81ff; — fleet of, 288; — foreign relations of, 335. Aṣṭakula, 220. Aṣṭapada board, 154. Asura form of war, 265. Asuravijaya, 235; — character of, 81 ff. Aśvacikitsita, a treatise on horses, 177. Aśvamedha, a sacrifice, performance of, 35-7. Aśvaśāstra, a treatise on horses by Nakula, 177. Aśvatthāma, 273. Aśvalāyana, 47, Aśvāyurveda, a treatise on horses by Jayadeva, 177. Ātan II, voluntary death of being wounded by Karikāl Cōḷa, 56. Atharva Veda (Saṃhitā), 13, 15, 26, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 65, 67, 75-6, 84, 85, 86, 159, 163n, 179, 180, 337. — diplomacy during the period of the, 301; — mention of fire arms in, 103; — on charms and spells in war, 265; — popularity of māyā and indrajālam in the, 332; — reference to the aṣṭapada board in the, 154; — reference to the chariots in the, 157-8; — references to the horses in the, 174; — reference to spies in the, 352; Atikāya, a Rākṣasa, 111; — engagement of, with Lakṣmaṇa, 125. Atiratha, 14. Aṭṭālakas, 249. Augustus Caesar, Pāṇḍyan embassy to, 290. Aurangzeb, commissariat, under, 186. Auśanasa Dhanurveda, 106n, 107n, 109n, 111n, 112, 113, 247n. Auśanasa Saṃhitā, 364. Ayodhyā, 17, 24; — compared to an aerial car, 281; — description of, in the Rāmāyaṇa, 253; — provided with Śataghni, 105. Ayuktika, a military officer, 228. Ayuṣa, the five sons of, Mahārathas, 13-14. Baden-Powell, 130, 150. Balarāma, 205; — musala weapon of, 114; Bali, sons of, 53. Bāṇa, author of the Harṣacarita, 165. Barbosa, 206; — on Indian ships, 298; — on the pay of soldiers in Vijayanagar, 212. Battle Array, Daiva, Gāndharva and mānuṣa, 221. Battlefield, site for the, 243-47.