CIVILIZATION
PERSIAN
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The King’s hand
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The King’s eyes and ears
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The King’s man
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The King’s guard
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Arthashastra broadly describes two types of espionage, i.e. sansthah or stationary spies and sancharah or roaming spies. The stationary spies included false disciples (kapatikas), recluses (udasthitas), house-holders (grihapatika), merchants (vaidehakas), and ascetics (tapas).
Detailed explanation-2: -Kautilya classified nine different types of spies-a fraudulent disciple (kapatikachhatra), a recluse (udasthita), a householder (grihapaitika), a merchant (vaidehaka), an ascetic (tapasa), a colleague (satri), a firebrand (tikshna), a poisoner (rasada) and a mendicant woman (bhikshuki).
Detailed explanation-3: -What is an Agent? An agent is another word for a spy: someone who volunteers or is recruited to pass secrets to an intelligence agency, sometimes taking risks to spy on their own country. They may be recruited through money, ideology, coercion, greed, or for another reason, such as love (human beings are complicated).