The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c10.505

v1.c10.505

The numbers of chariots employed for military purposes were great. According to the *Amarakoṣa*, every battalion ( *vāhinī* ) of four hundred and five foot soldiers included eighty-one cars and two hundred and forty-three horse; three such battalions formed a *pṛtanā*; three *pṛtanās* formed a *camū*; three *camūs* constituted an *anīkinī*; and ten such *anīkinīs* an *akṣauhiṇī* or complete brigade, including twenty-one thousand eight hundred and seventy cars, the same number of elephants, sixty-five thousand six hundred and ten horses, and one million nine thousand three hundred and fifty foot soldiers. It is doubtful if any prince had anything approaching to such a mighty host for his *corps d'armée*, but the arrangement and nomenclature in a dictionary indicate that large assemblages of cars were not quite uncommon.