The Mauryan Polity c7.s5.t7.4

c7.s5.t7.4

The king as the chief representative of the state attended also to the social and socialistic functions, such as promotion of arts and education, health and sanitation, medical aid and poor relief, and other charitable acts and deeds.³ Hospitals, rest-houses, donations, grants to learning and learned men, and maintenance of the widow, the orphan and the helpless were some of the institutions which came under this category.⁴