[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 206.4 # Storia do Mogor 206.4 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 206.4 - **Language:** English ### [206.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.206.4) Among these animals is one stronger and taller than the rest which bears the title of ' General of the Elephants.' When he appears at court he is very richly caparisoned, and attended by a number of other elephants, by flutes, trumpets, cymbals, and flags, all of which makes a grand show. The chief elephants have every day for their ration each one hundred and sixty-five pounds of food-stuff — namely, flour, rice, meat, butter, fine spices, and thirty pounds of sugar-cane. This is in addition to straw, grass, and leaves, for which they have twenty-five rupees a day. To wait on each elephant there are ten servants — that is, two drivers to ride on and direct him ; two to fix on his chains ; two men with spears ; two for the fireworks and to assist the others, if necessary ; one to remove the dung, and another to give him water for drinking and cooling himself. All these men are paid out of the twenty-five rupees a day allotted to the elephant, and these attendants have each four rupees a month, besides what they can steal from the elephant's food. - [Previous: 206.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.206.3) - [Next: 206.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.206.5) - [Up: 206](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.206) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.206.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.206.4) · Pramāṇa