Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c11.163

c11.163

The court of Chandragupta was no less imposing than his palace. In later times the grammarian Patañjali could still recall the *Chandragupta-sabhā*⁵. Here the king conferred with his councillors and assessors who excelled in wisdom, received ambassadors, listened to the reports of the *episkopoi* who inquired into and watched all that went on in his vast dominions, and administered justice to his subjects even when the time came for attending to his person, that is, when he was to be rubbed with cylinders of wood⁶.