The Mauryan Polity c13.s12.148

c13.s12.148

Megasthenes continues: "The third division has charge of the foot-soldiers, the fourth of the horses, the fifth of the war-chariots, and the sixth of the elephants. There are royal stables for the horses and elephants and also a royal magazine for the arms, because the soldier has to return his arms to the magazine and his horse and elephants to the stables. They use the elephants without bridles. That chariots are drawn on the march by oxen but the horses are led along by a halter, that their legs may not be galled and inflamed nor their spirits damped by drawing chariots."⁵