War in Ancient India c17.53

c17.53

Sarma, the cognomen of a Brahman, 46. Sarvasainyādhikāri minister of peace and war, 228. Sarvasenāpati, see Senāpati, 225. Śastra Yajña, before the Mahābhārata war, 64. Śataghni, 123, 125, 251, 252. Śatānīka, brother of Virāṭa, 128. — a military officer, 228. Sati, 54. Śatrujit, king, 174, 279, 304. Sātyaki, 270. Śaurya, an ethical principle of war, 58. Sculpture, evidence of, on arms and armour, 130-37; — representation of elephants in, 167. Seleukos, Niketor, 233; — Megasthenes, the ambassador of, 129; — relations of, with Candragupta, 335. Senāmukha, a military officer, 229. Senāni, military general in the Ṛg Vedic period, 220, 227. Senāpati, (Pradhān Senāpati, Sarvasenāpati, Mahā Senāpati) commander-in-chief, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 229, 238. Senāprenatara, a military officer, 221, 230. Śenguṭṭuvan, 382; — elephant force of, 174; — establishment of dūtas of, 350; — expedition of, to North India, 28-29, 34; — fleet of, 190, 291; — liberation of Kanaka and Vijaya by, 73; — performance of vedic sacrifice, 35; — prayers of, on the eve of his march, 63-4; — sending of envoys by, to North India, 347; — spies of, 360. — spoken disparagingly by the Pāṇḍya and Cōḻa monarchs, 71; — Śūra, waging of the war of the Ganges by, 14; — worship of God by, after victory, 76. Ships in ancient India, 187-8. Siegfried line, 264n. Siddhāntaśekhara, 247n. Śilappadikāram, the, a Tamil classic, 2, 14, 15, 41, 70, 337, 350, 381. Simhaviṣṇu, defeat of the Ceylonese King by, 291. Śiruttoṇḍar, victory of, against Pulakeśin II, 194. Sītā, 145, 281; — abduction of, by Rāvaṇa, 17; — marriage of, with Rāma, 51. Śiva, icon of, 148. Sivaji, commissariat under, 186. Śivatatvaratnākara, 224, 317, 326; — on the method of hostilities, 317; — on six kinds of bheda, 329; — on sixteen kinds of dāna, 327; — on the use and construction of fortress, 255; — on the site for the battle-field, 243-4; — on the importance of war elephants, 172; — on the measurement of a bow, 96. Skanda, 148; — wars of, 146. Skandāvāra (Kandācāra), 241 and n. Smith, V. A., 130;