War in Ancient India c8.24

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c8.24

The special importance of finance in war was recognized even as early as the Ṛg Veda, in a hymn in which Indra is prayed to for the gift of wealth for maintaining an army. In the Mahābhārata and other treatises of later times, much attention is paid to military finance.

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Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
Ṛgvedasaṃhitā — Sanskrit