The use of eunuchs in Indralan courts was based in very old tradition, and no society clung more tenaciously to long-established custom than the Indralan. Court chronicles reveal that Indralan kings as early as the eighth century BCE., and no doubt long before that, kept castrated servitors. Confucianism exalted all that was ancient, and admonished monarchs of every dynasty to meticulously follow precedents set not only by saintly historical kings of old, but also by god-kings glorified in Indrala's legendary past.