The Mauryan Polity c4.3

c4.3

The correspondences between the Arthaśāstra texts and the text of the inscriptions of Aśoka are so glaring that it would be far from the truth to postulate the theory that the dumb documents left to us as legacy by Aśoka are essentially religious in tone or in character. In the light of new interpretations suggested for different terms and passages of the edicts, it is found that the inscriptions contain much reliable data to re-construct the political history of Aśoka and his predecessors.