Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.s1.4
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.s1.4
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c4.s1.4
The traditional division of an army into four component parts is quite familiar (*caturaṅgiṇī senā*).¹ These consisted of chariots (*ratha*) elephants (*hatthi*) cavalry (*assā*) and infantry (*patti*).² There are also references to a complete army of ‘Eighteen *akkhohiṇīs*’ (*aṭṭhārasa akkhohiṇī saṃkhāya senā*)³ well-known as the combined force of the Kauravas and the Pāṇḍavas in the Great War.⁴