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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External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)
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rampart is
Thus, when the construction of the main
accomplished, work on inner buildings is said to begin At
.
a distance of twenty cubits on all sides, from the outer
wall another enclosure is made by raising a wall as high
as eight cubits and with minarets, as in the case of the
earlier. Within this enclosure are constructed the building
complex.
(35.3-4).
Now steps are taken to dig a moat at a distance of
three cubits from the outer wall in a circular shape like
The moat should be of 20 X 20
that of a waist-string.
cubits.
Both its banks are reinforced with stones or bricks
to make these stronger.
directions (5-7). SLP
Now, are fixed doors in different
informs that somekings prefer
their forts to have three rampart walls and also three
ditches, obviously to make these extra streng (8). The
AS description on this aspect seems to be much akin to
SLP which records that around the fort of any description,
"three ditches with an intermediate space of one danda
(four cubits) from each other, four teen, twelve and ten
dandas respectively in width, with depth less by one
quarter or by half of their width, square at their bottom
and one third as wide as at their top, with sides built of
stones or bricks, filled with perennial flow of water or
