298 ON THE ARMY ORGANISATION 



279. Payayitva madam samyak sainikan sauryavarddhanam 

 nalastrena ca khadgadyaih sainiko ghatayet arim. 5ti0 



280. Kuntena sadi banena ratliago gajago'pi ca 

 gajo gajena yatavyah turagena turangamah. 



281. Rathena ca ratho yojyah pattina pattir eva ca 

 ekenaikasca sastrena sastram astrena vastrakani. 



282. Na ca hanyat sthalarudham na kllbam na krtcanjalim 565 

 na niuktakesam asinam na tavasmiti vadinam. 194 



283. Na suptam na visannaham na nagnam na nirayudham 

 na yudhyamanam pasyantam, yudhyamanamparena ca. 195 



279. has made his soldiers drink up to a state of intoxication—' 



the strengthener of bravery — ; the soldier kills his enemy 

 with a tubular instrument (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 



certainly 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, Who 



nor one who is emasculated, nor one who has joined Skilled 0 * 

 his hands as a supplicant, nor one who sits with dis- 

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



283. nor one who is asleep, nor one without a coat of mail, nor 



a naked, nor an unarmed person, nor a combatant who 

 is looking on, nor one who is fighting with another ; 



194 See Mann, VII, 91 ; Nltiprakasika, VII, 46 ; and Mahabharata, Raja- 

 dharma, XCVI, 3, and XCVIII, 48a. 



195 See Manu, VII, 92. 



na yudhyamanam pasyantam na parena samagatam ; 

 and Nltiprakasika, VII, 47. 



