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It is quite well-known that a fort is a veritable store-house of men and material. Thus besides weapons of various kinds, provisions and other necessities of life are kept in reserve in such citadels. Samrajya-lakshmi-pithika while dealing with this topic mentions that in an ideal fort are to be maintained the reserve of the following articles by the intelligent king in their right places to make the fort much more invincible (38.3). Among the weapons are mentioned ten thousands of sharffarro bows and a good number of sharparrows with Crescent-shapped heads appearing like goad-hooks of elephants near the four main gates. Other weapons like lance, swoard, scimitar, spear, discus, club, mallet-hammer etc. should be suitably stored with pieces of stone. (4-6). Besides weapons of various kinds articles such as ghee, oil, wine, honey, salt, pepper, cumin-seeds (panicum Miliaceum), aromatic roots like vaca (Acorus Colamus), amaa (tamarind), metals like lead, a number of medicines,

534 fire-wood, horns, hides, different types of poison namely, halahala (snake-poison), vatsanabha (poison from treeextracts), different darts, mercury, betel-nuts, colours, dried-meat, paddy, wheat, grams, black-grams, beans, barley or corns etc. should be collected and kept in separate stocks in different rooms. And the most important duty of the master lies in the fact that intermittantly, the store of a fort should be replenished by him with fresh stock (7-11).