Chandragupta Maurya and His TimesThis is a comprehensive work dealing with the life and times of India`s first historical emperor, and a picture of the civilization of India in the early period of the fourth century BC. The author had utilized much material found in Arthasastra. The work also embodies collation and comparison of evidence from different sources, classical works in Sanskrit, Buddhist and jaina texts and the inscriptions of Asoka. The book gives a detailed account of Chandragupta Maurya and the general view of his administration. It has covered almost all aspects of administration including the king, ministers and officers with rules of service and divisions of administrative departments; governance of land system and rural administration along with municipal administration, the source of law and dispensation of justice and the army and its management. Besides social and economic conditions of that times have been elaborately discussed. The detailed contents serves as an index of subjects, the other parts are--Index of technical terms, three appendics which enrich utility of the book and a plate of typical Mauryan Coins. |
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... Coins , 212 ; Vedic References , 212 ; References of Papini , Kautilya , and Patanjali to Coins , 212 . Specimens of ancient Indian punch - marked coins , 215 ; Pre- Maurya Coins , 215 ; Six Classes of silver punch - marked coins ...
... Coins , 212 ; Vedic References , 212 ; References of Papini , Kautilya , and Patanjali to Coins , 212 . Specimens of ancient Indian punch - marked coins , 215 ; Pre- Maurya Coins , 215 ; Six Classes of silver punch - marked coins ...
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... coin . The Arthasästra takes the term rūpa in the sense of a coin alone and mentions an officer known as Rupadarsaka , ' the examiner of coins , ' as we have already seen It is interesting to note that Patanjali in commenting on ...
... coin . The Arthasästra takes the term rūpa in the sense of a coin alone and mentions an officer known as Rupadarsaka , ' the examiner of coins , ' as we have already seen It is interesting to note that Patanjali in commenting on ...
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... coins in all the localities under its control . " The authority that issued these coins must have ruled the Ganges valley , the upper Indus valley , thrust its way up the tributaries of Jumna to the west , and come along the east coast ...
... coins in all the localities under its control . " The authority that issued these coins must have ruled the Ganges valley , the upper Indus valley , thrust its way up the tributaries of Jumna to the west , and come along the east coast ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Greatness I Earliest Indian Emperors 1 Terms and Ceremonies | 10 |
Taxila 16 Education at Taxila | 16 |
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