The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c18.126

c18.126

The Boards described by Megasthenes as in charge of the business of the capital and the army are unknown to the author, who contemplated each such charge as the duty of a single officer. The creation of the Boards may have been an innovation effected by Chandragupta personally. The treatise confirms the Greek accounts in many particulars.