The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c28.2

v1.c28.2

CONCERNING the condition and organisation of the vast Maurya empire the Greeks have provided us with a considerable body of valuable information: and, as the Arthaçāstra furnishes the means of describing the complete polity existing at the time, its land system, its fiscal system, its administrative system, its law, its social system, with some view of literature and religion, we shall not forgo the opportunity, so rare in Indian history—we must wait for the time of Akbar and the *Ā’īn-i-Akbarī*—of dwelling a little on the picture.