History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c62.401.4

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199) says that there must be means of leaving it secretly, otherwise it will be a prison and that no one should be allowed to enter it or leave it without a pass or without being searched. Kauṭ. (II. 3) gives detailed instructions for the construction of fort walls, towers, ditches, pillars, lotus ponds and buildings inside the fort, which are all passed over for want of space. Vide the Rājadharmakāṇḍa pp. 28-36 and the Rājadharmakaustubha pp. 115-117 for numerous quotations from the Dhanurveda of Uśanas, the Mahābhārata, the Matsya, the Viṣṇudharmottara and other works on *durga*.