Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c9.s2.7

c9.s2.7

⁴⁸ Śukra says: “The king should have his infantry four times the cavalry, bulls one-fifth of his horse, camels one-eighth, elephants one-fourth of the camels, chariots half of the elephants and cannon twice the chariots.” (Śukranīti, IV, vii, l. 41, p. 128; Soc. and Pol. Life in the Vij. Emp., I, p. 420). But curiously enough Śukra mentions seven and not six. Saletore tries to overcome the difficulty by remarking, “but in reality Śukra merely gave legal sanction to two of the parts already mentioned as auxiliaries by Kauṭilya—bulls and camels and introduced one new feature—artillery—which was unknown to the age of the Arthaśāstra, Ibid., I, p. 420).