[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Mauryan Polity](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1932) › c7.s6.t2 # The Mauryan Polity c7.s6.t2: Public works undertaken The Mauryan Polity c7.s6.t2 - **Language:** English ### Public works undertaken ### [c7.s6.t2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1932.c7.s6.t2.1) Granting that the Mauryas had a large and guaranteed money supply, there is nothing to show that they misused it in an irresponsible fashion sacrificing the public interests of the state at the altar of self-advancement. For the Mauryan state patronised many arts and crafts including architecture and sculpture whose excavations and discoveries are a surprise and puzzle to archæologists.³ Money was lavishly spent on public works which tended to the common good, such as laying out grand trunk roads, constructing reservoirs and embankments for agricultural purposes, founding hospitals, rest-houses and store-houses on public roads and other prominent places.¹ ### [c7.s6.t2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1932.c7.s6.t2.2) ² \*Ar. Śās.\*, Bk. V, Ch. 2. ### [c7.s6.t2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1932.c7.s6.t2.3) ³ On the \*Art of the Maurya period\* see, Monahan, \*Early History of Bengal\*, Ch. XIX. ### [c7.s6.t2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1932.c7.s6.t2.4) ¹ Ar. Śās., Bk. I, Ch. 1. ## Cites (1) - [Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.kautilya.5.2) — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1932.c7.s6.t2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1932.c7.s6.t2) · Pramāṇa