History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c62.467.4

v4.c62.467.4

He says that the soldiers should be encamped outside the town or village but not far from it, that no money-lending should be allowed between the soldiers and the village people, that the king should open separate shops for goods required by soldiers, that no army should be encamped at one place for more than a year, that soldiers should not enter the village without the king's permission, that receipts should be taken from soldiers for payments made to them and they should be furnished with a writing about their pay. Some of these rules are very old. The Udyogaparva²⁷¹ 37. 30 mentions among persons with whom no contractual transactions should be entered into, the king, the king's servants and soldiers.