Essay name: Samrajya Lakshmi Pithika (Study)
Author:
Artatrana Sarangi
Affiliation: Savitribai Phule Pune University / Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages
This is a study in English of the Samrajya Lakshmi Pithika (written by Lolla Lakshmidhara) representing an encyclopedic manual for emperors. The Samrajyalaksmipithika encompasses about 3870 verses in addressing topics such as public festivals, governance, warfare (military strategy), and rituals associated with the Tantric worship for the deity Samrajya-Lakshmi.
Chapter 4 - King and his Paraphernalia
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External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)
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Such sessions used to conclude with narratives of some
famous ancient kings (5-6).
Company of poets :
The next ghatika the king spends in the assembly
of poets. Here we get a picture of a highly developed
state of Sanskrit poetry which was zealously patronised
and cultivated. For, we come to know from SLP that such
assemblies used to boast of poets who were
quite
adept in composing and interpreting most abstruse poetic
elements which characterised sanskrit compositions of
the age, as represented in the works of Bharavi, Dandin
and SrIharsa. We see that some poets of such
assemblies
were polyglots, proficient in making their compositions
in as many as six languages, while others are shown to
15 be excelling in the four-fold art of making poetry
and some others, possessing the capacity to compose
one hundred verses in a ghatika (7-9).
15.
Perhaps, here is a reference to KD, 1.32 which
enumerates Samskrta Prakrta, Apabhramsa and
misra as the four-fold medium of literary
compositions and Anguttaranikava, Kavisutta (2.245)
describes Cinta, Suta, Attha and Patibhana kavis
as four classes of poets.
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