Arthashastra by Tom Trautmann

Author:Tom Trautmann [Trautmann, Thomas R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788184756111
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2015-12-28T00:00:00+00:00

The quality (and probably quantity as well) of elephants declines from east to west, the best coming from Orissa (Kalinga), the poorest from Punjab (Pancanada)—where they are no longer found. The geographical horizon of this passage is of the northern parts of India, but another passage suggests that elephants were acquired by trade both from the Himalayas in the north and from the south (7.12.22–24; see chapter five).

The primacy of elephants in warfare is made plain by the Arthashastra:

Victory in battle for a king depends principally on elephants. For elephants, possessing very big-sized bodies and being capable of life-destroying activities, pound the troops, battle-arrays, fortresses and camps of enemies. (2.2.13–14)

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