281 



(XN THE ARMY ORGANISATION 



202. Nayakah. purato yayat pravirapurusavrtali 400 

 madhye kalatram kosasca svaml phalguca yaddkanam, 161 

 dhyajinlni ca sadodyuktah sa gopayet divanisam. 162 



203. Nadyadrivanadiirgesu yatra yatra bhayam bkavet 

 senapatih tatra tatra gacchet vyuhikrtairbalaih. 163 



204. Yayat vyukena makata makarena purobliaye ; 405 

 syenenobliayapaksena sticya, va dhlravaktraya. 104 



205. Pascadbkaye tu sakatam parsvayorvajrasafijmkam 

 sarvatak sarvatobkadram cakram vyalam atkapi va ; 165 

 yathadesarn kalpayet va satrusenavibkedakam. 



206. Yyukaracanasanketan vadyabkasasanilritan 410 



202. Tke commander-in-ckief skould go in front, surrounded 



by valiant men, in tke midst skould be the queen, tke 

 treasury, tke king, and wkatever ready money tkere 

 is ; and ke skould alwa} T s zealously guard kis army day 

 and nigkt. 



203. Wkerever, wketker in a river, mountain, forest or fortress 



an alarm of tke enpmy (coming) arises, tkere skould tke 

 general go with combined forces. 



204. If tke alarm arises in front, ke skould marck in an array Different 



resembling a crocodile, a double- winged hawk or a formations 



( ° to of troops, 



needle witk a strong point. 



205. A king skould form if tke alarm rises in tke rear wkat is 



called a cart, if on tke flanks a tkunderbolt, if on all 

 sides, an everywhere impregnable figure, a wheel and an 

 elephant for the destruction of the hostile army accord- 

 ing to the fitness of the place. 



206. Nobody except his own soldiers should know the intima- Signals. 



See Hit., Ill, 70 ; Kamand., XVTII, 45. 

 Nayakah purato yayat praviraprtanavrtah 

 madhye kalatram svaml ca kosah phalgu mahaddhanam. 



162 See Kamandaklya, XVIII, 43. 



163 See Kamand., XVIII, 44 ; Hitop., Til, 69 ; and compare Manu, VII, 188. 



164 See Kamand., XVIII, 48. 



165 See Kamand., XVIII, 49. 



Pascadbhaye tu sakatam parsvayorvajrasanjnitam 

 sarvatah sarvatobhadram bhayavyuham prakalpayet. 



