War in Ancient India c8.s1.37

c8.s1.37

A Saciva was probably the minister of peace and war,⁷² who is known in later inscriptions as Sandhivigrahika. According to the Udayagiri inscription of Candragupta II Saciva Vīrasena, who was the Minister of Peace and War, also accompanied the king to the battle-field.⁷³ Only a highly qualified person was appointed as Sandhivigrahika. He should be well versed in all aspects of Ṣāḍguṇya, expert in all languages of his country and above all skilled in the modes of policy (naya), a term of much political importance in Hindu political literature.⁷⁴ In the Vijayanagar epoch he was known as Sarvasainyādhikāri, while a minister of war was known as a Dalavay.⁷⁵