Anahilapataka, Chaulukya Kingdom — 1179 CE
Bhima had expected the records of Kasahrada to be easier to find.
The battle had taken place years earlier, and the men who had fought in it had since been transferred, promoted, retired, or buried. Some of the officers who had recorded the campaign were dead. Others had taken their papers home when they left service, while the royal archives held only the copies considered worth preserving. Yet the battle had been important enough that its accounts had survived in several places. The problem was that each record answered a different question. The campaign register listed the units that had marched. The casualty rolls named the men who had died or been wounded. The supply accounts recorded what had been issued to the army, and the reports sent to the court described what the commanders wished their superiors to know.
