The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c18.85

c18.85

¹ Asses, however, were largely used in ancient India, that is to say, in the Panjāb, and on the mountain frontiers, as they were in Irān or Persia. They are mentioned in the *Rig Veda*; and many passages in the *Mahābhārata* mention asses, camels, and mules in association, as used by the Vāhīka and Madraka tribes in the Panjāb, of which Sākala (Siālkōt) was then the capital (Sylvain Lévi, *Ind. Ant.*, 1906, p. 17). See also *Arthaśāstra*, Bk. ii, ch. 29, Bk. vii, ch. 12, and Bk. ix, ch. 1. Mules were also employed for military purposes.