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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The various apartments (halls) on the left and right
(of these gates) are connected by a straight and wide hall
(kostha) (sub-way) in the middle, each kak峁 having a
door. A gopura (principal gate) is constructed on the top
of the last-door in the fashion of a three-storeyed building
of the Vedasra type. In the inner circle of this _gopura
is raised a pillared pavilion with many rooms to permanently
house the warriors and guards. This is also said to be
accomplished in fasion of a leopard's mouth (11-13).
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Now, both ends of the outer walls (upasala) are
joined. The doors fitted to such a fort also appear to
to
follow a prescribed schedule, the eastern, facing the
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south, the southern to the west, the western to the north
and northern to the east. These should also immitate the
shape of a teopard's face (14-15).
Statutes of deities like Ga峁噀艣a, Bhairava, Bhadra-
kali, and Hanumat are to be installed at the eastern,
southern, western and northern doors respectively. Added to
the big gates already mentioned, four small gates with
two-fold doors are to be opened in the four sub-quarters
(vidie) which should not be done after the tiger's mouth.
All the doors are platted with sheets of iron, have strong
bolts (argala)
Samku) in the
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and provided with pointed iron-pegs
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shape of plantain-buds. This infrastructure
