Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.s1.32
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.s1.32
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c4.s1.32
In our stories this cavalry-host is as firm and sturdy as the war-cars and the elephants. These war-horses were clad in iron-armour (*vammam*) and mail (*sannāham*).² The best thorough-breds were the Sindhava horses and were called *ajānīyā*: *Ajānīya ca jātiyā Sindhavā sīghavāhanā*,³ though Kamboja horses are also known.⁴ Thus are the thoroughbreds described: