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 5 - Forts, Castrametation and the Royal Army
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kings, is not mentioned in many old and standard works like
the Mbh., AS, MS., Ag Purana, Manasara
Comparatively recent works like SN
and Kamandakiva.
mentions another class
of forts known as the sahayadurgas which betray some
similarity with the Kosthadurgas mentioned by SLP.
Quoting the opinion of the masters of science of
enumerates eight
construction, the Silpasastra, SLP
subdivisions of the store-forts. These are as follows:
1. The Vedasra 2. Dirghaved膩艣ra 3. Vartula
4. Dirghavartula 6. Pa帽cakona
7. Asta艣ra
6. Satkona
and 8. Padma sannibha. (34. 4-5).
Thus, the store-house-fort may be of four, five,
six or eight corners or of circular size immitating a
lotus flower. A king, with the help of masons, should
get for himself, a fort built of any one of the aforesaid
description and reside therein. For, declares SLP that
the real strength of a king lies in such types of forts,
26 the store-houseones.
A comparative study of the various texts which
broach on the bubject of fortification, brings to fore
26. tadeva nrpavarvana峁� prasastam balamIritam (34.4)
