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Heavy cavalry formed the core of the Gupta Army and were supported by the traditional Indian Army elements of war elephants and light infantry. [126] The utilisation of horse archers in the Gupta period is evidenced on the coinage of Chandragupta II, Kumaragupta I and Prakasaditya (postulated to be Purugupta) [127] that depicts the kings as ...
War elephants depicted in Hannibal crossing the Rhône (1878), by Henri Motte Indian elephant sword on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, two feet (61 cm) long Rajput painting depicting a war elephant in an army. A war elephant is an elephant that is trained and guided by humans for combat purposes.
Mihirakula (Gupta script: , Mi-hi-ra-ku-la, Chinese: 摩酰逻矩罗 Mo-hi-lo-kiu-lo), sometimes referred to as Mihiragula or Mahiragula, was the second and last Alchon Hun king of northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent between 502 and 530 CE. [6] He was a son of and successor to Toramana of Huna heritage.
Mahouts, or elephant trainers, trained elephants using chains and a hook called an “elephant goad.” ... The fearsome 6,000 war elephants of the Nanda Army led to mutiny among Alexander the ...
Elephant armour dating from around 1600. Shield made of rhinoceros hide. The Vedic age recorded in-fighting among Indian clans for supremacy over the Indus. In the Battle of the Ten Kings prominent Vedic clans clashed along the Ravi River. The Vedas and the other texts of the period record these struggles in detail and provide a clear picture ...
(The Arabic word dabbāba in former times meant a covered siege engine for attacking walled fortifications; today it means "army tank".) This is reminiscent of the aforementioned chaturaji, where the elephant moves as a rook. The German historian Johannes Kohtz (1843–1918) suggests, rather, that this was the earliest move of the Ratha.
An imagined Indian war elephant against Alexander's army, by Johannes van den Avele Eventually the two forces met and arrayed themselves for the battle. The Indians were poised with cavalry on both flanks, fronted by their chariots, while their center comprising infantry with war elephants stationed every fifty feet in front of them, to deter ...
Skandagupta (Gupta script: Ska-nda-gu-pta, [2] r. c. 455-467) was a Gupta Emperor of India.His Bhitari pillar inscription suggests that he restored the Gupta power by defeating his enemies, who may have been rebels or foreign invaders.