History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c62.514.1

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pp. 94-95.) speak of four sandhis, *maitra*, *parasparopakāra* (agreement to help each other), *sambandhaja* (by offer of a princess in marriage) and *upahāra*. An interesting example of a sandhi is furnished by the Lekhapañcāśikā which gives a form of treaty dated Monday, Full Moon of Vaiśākha in *saṁvat* 1288 (1232 A. D.) between Yādava king Siṅghaṇa of Devagiri who is styled *mahārājādhirāja* and Lāvaṇyaprasāda (Lavaṇaprasāda) a Vāghela king who is styled *rāṇaka* and *mahāmaṇḍaleśvara*, whereby the high contracting parties agreed not to invade each other's possessions, to combine and oppose anyone else who invaded one of them. Vide Bom. G. Vol. I part 1 p. 200 based on Bhandarkar's Report on the search for Mss. 1882-83 pp. 38-40. Kām. IX. 23-26 and Agnipurāṇa 240. 10-13 mention twenty kinds of persons with whom *sandhi* should not be made, Kām. (IX. 27-41) states the reasons why it should be so and in IX. 42-52 seven persons are enumerated with whom he recommends *sandhi* and gives reasons. A king should make sandhi even with one equal in strength (not only with one who is more powerful), since victory in battle is doubtful (Kām. IX. 59).³⁰³ Kaut. uses a striking simile when he says that if one king comes in conflict with an equal they both will be destroyed in the same way as two unbaked earthen pots striking against one another.