The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c30.42

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movable habitations of high Anglo-Indian officials, had not then been invented, and Harsha was obliged to be content with a ‘travelling palace’ made of boughs and reeds, which was erected at each halting-place, and burnt at his departure.¹ He was accustomed to move in great state, being accompanied by several hundred drummers, who beat a note on golden drums for each step taken. No other king was allowed to use such ‘music-pace drums’.²