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ON THE WE A PONS USED 



278. "When the king gladdens his soldiers on the march 

 with a quarter extra pay, protects his body in the battle 

 with a shield and armour ; 



279. has induced his soldiers to drink up to a state of intoxi- 

 cation, the strengthener of bravery, the soldier kills his enemy 

 with a gun, swords, and other weapons. 



280. A charioteer should be assailed by a lance, a 

 person on a carriage or elephant by an arrow, an elephant 

 by an elephant, a horse by a horse. 



281. A carriage is to be opposed by a carriage, and a foot 

 soldier also by a foot soldier, one person by another person, 

 a weapon by a weapon, or a missile by a missile. 



282. He should not kill a person who' is alighted on the 

 ground, nor one who is emasculated, nor one who has joined 

 his hands as a supplicant, nor one who sits with dishevelled 

 hair, nor one who says " I am thine." 



Then follow beginning with 282 up to 284 the same excep- 

 tions as found in Manu, VII, 91 — 93, and specified inllalhed's 

 Code. 



The Sukraniti goes then on stating expressly : 



286. These restrictions exist in fair but not in unfair 

 fighting ; to ensure the destruction of a powerful enemy 

 there is no fighting equal to unfair fighting. 



287. Unfair fighting was certainly observed by Rama, 

 Krsna, Indra, and other gods ; Bali, Yavana, and Namuci 

 were killed by unfair fighting. 



"We see thus that the Sukraniti is in direct opposition to the 

 law code bearing Manu's name, and considering the estimation 

 in which the latter was held, it can hardly be assumed that a 

 member of the Brahmanic community— in which term I 

 include all the three higher castes and the Sudras within its 

 pale — could have dared to compose it after the text of the 

 Manavadharmasastra had once been finally settled as it 

 stands to this day. 



