War in Ancient India c7.s4.22

c7.s4.22

We have documentary evidence of the highest value in the inscriptions of the Great Choḷas to show how an army was organised in the tenth century A.D. in South India. As many as thirty-one regiments are mentioned in the Tanjore inscriptions.¹³⁵ Most of these regiments have been called after the surnames or titles of the reigning king or his son:—