The Mauryan Polity c10.s3.10

c10.s3.10

These committees and their duties are also found mentioned by Strabo, another classical writer.¹ Besides the special functions allotted to each one of these six bodies all of them in their collective capacity interested themselves in matters of general interest, such as, the upkeep and repair of public buildings, the regulation of prices, the care of markets, harbours, and temples.² Every writer on the Mauryan polity has not failed to quote this long extract of Megasthenes. It has been followed here, the object being to quote parallel passages from the *Arthaśāstra*.