Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c7.62

c7.62

**Elephant Guard.** We are also told that the king had a guard of twenty four elephants, and when he went out to administer justice, the first elephant was trained to do him obeisance. As the king passed, the elephant gave him a sort of a military salute on a hint from the driver and a stroke of his goad [Megasthenes, *Frag.* 25].