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পরিশিষ্ট । 魔8° the country was thickly populated, and that the King kept up at his own cost an establishment of ooooo horses and 4,OOO elephants." The Rayas seem to have kept in the city itself for its immediate purposes of defence and protection Fooooo infantry, 3O,OOO cavalry and about 4.OOO elephants, with a suitable number of guns and artillery officers. The king's special bodyguard consisted of 6,OOO well trained, well-mounted and richly-dressed horsemen. There were about 1,Ooo horses in the Royal stables for the Raya's personal use. Thousand artisans, smiths washermen and workers were permanently attached to the palace establishment to look after the palace-work and necessary repairs. Numberless male servants had their allotted work in and around the palace precincts. About 20O cooks were on the list of the King's personal establishment, About 20O Governors, Viceroys, Military Commandants, and their representatives were in the city from different parts of the Empire, and their retainers, bodyguards, troops, camp-followers, and othet menial servants must certainly have been more than IOoooo souls. There were a large number of torch-bearers, as each noble had to be preceded by five, seven, nine or eleven men while the king employed Ioo or 15o to go before him. A military population of ISOOOo men in the capital meant at least treble thilt number of grooms, grass-cutters, ferriers, servants, and members of their families. The colleges contained the best literary hen of the age frem the different parts of India, and they