[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [War in Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944) › c7.s3.2 # War in Ancient India c7.s3.2 War in Ancient India c7.s3.2 - **Language:** English ### [c7.s3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c7.s3.2) The \*caturanga\* was a classical division of the army accepted by tradition. But in the epoch of the epics we hear of a \*ṣaḍaṅga\*¹⁰³ or the six-fold army, including commissariat and admiralty. The use of commissariat can be traced to the epic age. It is said that when the Pāṇḍava army marched to Kurukṣetra it was followed by ‘carts and transport cars, and all descriptions of vehicles, the treasury, weapons, and machines, and physicians and surgeons, along with the few invalids that there were in the army and all those that were weak and powerless.’ This was a purely civil department attached to the army.¹⁰⁴ That a group of physicians - [Previous: c7.s2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c7.s2.15) - [Next: c7.s3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c7.s3.3) - [Up: c7.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c7.s3) ## Linked texts (1) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c7.s3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c7.s3.2) · Pramāṇa