A History of Agriculture in India v2.c79.s6.4

v2.c79.s6.4

'From his knowledge of the wonderful properties of the cow, His Majesty pays much attention to the improvement of cattle. He divided them into classes, and committed each to the charge of a merciful keeper. One hundred choice cattle were selected as *khasa* and called *kotal*. They are kept in readiness for any service, and forty of them are taken unladen on hunting expeditions. Fifty-one others nearly as good are called *half-kotal*, and fifty-one more, *quarter-kotal*. Any deficiency in the first class is made up from the second, and that of the middle from the third. But these three form the cow stables for His Majesty's use.