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 while enlightening on the origin and early life, conquests and chronology, administration, ideals, divisions, presents the reader in the court of the first historical emperor of India, duly attended by his popular ministers and officers and acquaints the student with the rules of service and administrative departments. Land system and rural administration are surveyed along with the municipal administration of the times. Justice personified in the King appears before us along with the huge divisions of the army to maintain it. Social and economic conditions have been so elaborately discussed as to cause surprise and curiosity. As a matter of fact, the author takes the reader back to the golden times as if by magic. To render the matter easily accessible to the reader an Index of subjects, an Index of Technical Terms, three Appendices and a plate of typical Mauryan coins, have also been added. This work is meant to fill up a gap in the knowledge of Ancient India. |
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... province called Malaya ( cf. Malaya in Mudrārākshasa ) and won him over to the doctrine that pillage was preferable to tillage as a pursuit . He enlisted himself as one of the gangs of robbers together with his brothers and kinsmen and ...
... province called ' India - west - of- the Indus ' . It comprised lower Kabul valley and the hill tracts up to the Hindukush , with its capital at Pushkalāvatī ( Charsadda ) . The governor had at his disposal a Macedonian garrison under ...
... province of Greek India which was like the gateway to India . Philip very soon left his new headquarters to see Alexander off on his return journey down the Hydaspes . But little did he know that his own days were numbered ! He was ...
... province between the Indus and the Paropanisus . Eudamus was the solitary Greek agent lingering on in India , but he had no official position in the empire and is ignored in its partitions . He probably set himself up as the leader of ...
... provinces " [ VIII . 291-301 ] . The same text further relates that at the very opening of this campaign , Chāṇakya and Chandragupta suffered a reverse by failing to reduce a town , until Chanakya reduced it by a ruse , throwing its ...
Contents
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127 Rural Staff 128 Fiscal Classification of Villages 128 Village | 127 |
CHAPTER VIII | 133 |
against Epidemics 138 Killing rats 138 RatCess 138 Control | 139 |
Mining 146 Roads 147 Summary of Agreements | 147 |
Inheritance 154 Sons of different kinds | 154 |
an offence 157 List of Offences 157 Arrest 158 Abetment 158 | 158 |
CHAPTER X | 165 |
Greek Accounts of Equipment 170 Kautilyas Account 170 | 172 |
Varnasramadharma 49 Duties of different Castes 49 and | 51 |
Interviews Upasthana Agnyāgāra 51 Maxims for Royalty | 57 |
Processions at Festivals 62 Courtly Pomp 62 Ceremony of washing | 63 |
according to Kautilya 68 Pataliputra as described in Buddhist texts | 71 |
Maurya trade in images of gods 76 Hierarchy of Officers from | 81 |
Service 85 Pensions 88 Payment of salary in cash and kind | 88 |
Sannidhata 97 Government Buildings 97 Treasury 97 Granary | 98 |
Rainfall 103 Means of Irrigation 103 Agricultural Seasons 103 | 103 |
Superintendent of SlaughterHouse | 110 |
115 Table of Tolls | 117 |
CHAPTER VII | 124 |
Elephants in military operations 178 ElephantRiders 178 Eastern | 178 |
Caste and Craft 184 Brahmins 184 Śramanas 186 Their | 188 |
194 Slavery 195 Religion | 195 |
Uncultivated Wastes and Forestry 201 Forest Staff | 201 |
Seaborne Trade 207 Panini on Roads 208 Patanjali on Roads | 208 |
210 Corals 210 Fragrant Woods 210 Skins 210 Blankets 211 | 211 |
Fortresses as described by Greek writers 221 Towns mentioned | 224 |
Parallelisms between Aśokas Edicts and Kautilyas | 236 |
INDEX OF SANSKRIT WORDS | 256 |