War in Ancient India c7.s1.t4.55

c7.s1.t4.55

But in the epoch of the epics and the *Arthaśāstra* we find that the cavalry occupied as important a place in the army as any other division. Kauṭalya mentions a State superintendent of horses,⁷⁵ who had many duties to discharge besides maintaining a register of horses. The prescriptions of Kauṭalya relating to the duties of this officer are analogous to those of the superintendent of elephants, and only the more important of them from our point of view need be noticed here. Only experts in horse training and versed in healing the sick ones were chosen as aśvādhyakṣa.⁷⁶