War in Ancient India c7.s3.15

c7.s3.15

The Nitiprakāśikā¹¹⁰ says that the army was generally followed by a select harem, some friendly neighbours, a few suburban inhabitants, financiers, chamberlains, eunuchs, the sick, wounded, maimed and weak; also by the civil officials of the State, by workmen, diggers, carpenters, surveyors, engineers, men acquainted with the field of action, hunters acquainted with forests, and good physicians.