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THE 1SITIPRAKASIKA. 



50. bulls for carrying burdens, mules, far-going camels, 

 and medicine for elephants, horses and men, 



51. various musical instruments, the agreeable beverage 

 Kairataka, cotton of the silk-cotton tree, together with flint 

 and iron, 36 



52. wooden vessels, iron and copper basins, brass imple- 

 ments, stone-cutters, chisels, grindstones, balances, 



53. awls, boots, breeches, as well as whips, hounds, bamboo 

 sticks, traps and fish-nets, 



54. spittoons, perfumed oil, yellow orpiment, and all such 

 like things. 



Soldiersbe 55. Of those of his soldiers who serve on the carriages, he 

 general should make expert riders, and the horsemen he should turn 

 duty * into able chariot-soldiers. 



56. The king should make these two (the horsemen and 

 chariot-soldiers) capable of fighting from the back of ele- 

 phants, all of them he should transform into foot-soldiers, 

 and the latter he should use as chariot-soldiers, horsemen and 

 elephant-soldiers. 



57. The king should make all his soldiers expert in 

 charioteering, elephant-riding, in guarding the carriage 

 wheels and in other difficult things. 



58. The king should instruct his troops well in those thirty- 

 two movements of war, which are acknowledged by polity, 



Use of 59. Experts declare that the work of elephants consists in 

 elephants. marcn i n g { n front, entering into forest forts, making new and 

 clearing existing roads. 



60. destroying fear-exciting appliances, breaking walls, 

 carrying treasure, allaying the fear (of timid, and) conciliat- 

 ing quarrelsome elephants, 



36 This is a description of the ordinary Indian tinder-box commonly called 

 iakimuki by natives and Rdmasvaml by Europeans ; see Weapons, p. 81, 



