War in Ancient India c8.31

c8.31

The *Śukranīti* gives figures relating to the proper apportionment of military expenditure to be incurred. We may take the figures as roughly representative of earlier times as well. The following estimate gives, according to the treatise, the proportion of the sums which may be spent on the various items of civil and military expenditure by a State with an income of 100,000 karṣas.¹⁹