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213. Drak sandhanam puuah pato graho moksah pimah 



punaL ; 



svaguhanam pratighatah sastrastrapadavikramaih. 425 



214. Dvabhyam tribhisoaturbliirva panktisogamanam tatah ; 

 tatlia pragbhavanam capasaranam tupasarjanam 

 apasrtyastrasiddhyartham upasrtya vimoksanam. 



215. Pragbhutva mocayet astram vyuhasthah sainikah sada 

 aslnah syat vimuktastrah pragva capasaret pimah. 



216. Pragasmam tupasrto drstva svastram vimocayet 430 

 ekaikaso dviso vapi saiigliaso bodhito yatlia. 



217. Krauncanam khe gatiryadrk panktitah. samprajayate 

 tadrk samraksayet krauficavytiham desabalam yatha, 



218. Suksmagrlvam madhyapuccham sthulapaksam tu 



panktitah 435 

 brhatpaksam madliyagalapuccham syenam mukhe 

 tanum. 



213. then quickly aim again, and throw, take up and discharge 



the arms repeatedly, cover themselves, and beat with 

 arms, weapons and feet ; 



214. further go in rows of two, three or four ; likewise, front, 



retire and change places ; retire for adjusting the 

 arms and advance for the discharge. 



215. A soldier when standing in his corps should always 



discharge his arms from the front, if he has discharged 

 the arms he should sit down, or should leave the front. 



216. But (the next soldier) advancing should discharge his 



weapon keeping his eye on him who sits in front, either 

 one by one, or in twos or in numbers, according to the 

 order. 



217. As the moving of the herons proceeds in the sky, he should Formation 



arrange the herons' array, according as it is adapted to of troo P s - 

 the country ; 



218. with a thin neck, a middling tail, a bulky wing, arranged 



