Editing Army (section)

===India===
The [[Battle of the Ten Kings]], a [[Indo-Aryan peoples|Hindu Aryan]] king named [[Sudas]] defeated an alliance of ten kings and their supportive chieftains. During the [[Iron Age]], the [[Maurya Empire|Maurya]] and [[Nanda Empire|Nanda]] Empires had one of the largest armies in the world, the peak being approximately over 600,000 Infantry, 30,000 Cavalry, 8,000 [[Ratha|War-Chariots]] and 9,000 War Elephants not including [[tributary state]] allies.<ref>{{citation |last=Majumdar |first=Ramesh Chandra |author-link=R. C. Majumdar |title=Ancient India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XNxiN5tzKOgC |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |date=2003 |orig-year=1952 |isbn=81-208-0436-8|page=107}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?idbMg-DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA84&dq=mauryan+army&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQ99nQ967WAhXHJJQKHX_YDhI4ChDoAQgnMAE#v=onepage&q=mauryan%20army&f=false ''History of India''] by Malti Malik, p.84</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=y1ngxn_xTOIC&dq=mauryan+army&pg=PA218 ''The Great Armies of Antiquity''] by Richard A. Gabriel p.218</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jpXijlqeRpIC|title=India's Historic Battles: From Alexander the Great to Kargil|last=Roy|first=Kaushik|date=2004-01-01|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=9788178241098|language=en|pages=28–31}}</ref> In the [[Gupta Empire|Gupta]] age, large armies of [[longbow]]men were recruited to fight off invading horse archer armies. [[War elephant|Elephants]], [[Pike (weapon)|pike]]men, and [[cavalry]] were other featured troops.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.worldhistory.org/Indian_Warfare/ | title=Ancient Indian Warfare }}</ref>