The Mauryan Polity c8.s3.t11: Works of public utility
The Mauryan Polity c8.s3.t11
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Works of public utility
c8.s3.t11.1
Other works of public utility consisted in constructing lakes and other reservoirs of water and laying out roads well furnished with medicinal herbs, plants, and trees.² The Sudarśana Lake under Candragupta and the Grand Trunk Road leading to Pāṭaliputra are evidences.
c8.s3.t11.2
² See *Aśoka's Inscriptions, Corpus*, pp. 3-4.