Chandragupta Maurya and His Times
Chandragupta's career and Mauryan administration, economy and society, from the Arthaśāstra, Megasthenes, Buddhist and Jain sources.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Radhakumud Mookerji
- Extent
- 1,692 passages, 96,993 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · University of Madras (Sir William Meyer lectures), 1943; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash; chapters… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Radhakumud Mookerji †1963)
Contents
- c1 Chandragupta Maurya and His Times — 6 parts
- c2 Preface — 7 parts
- c3 Table of Contents — 108 parts
- c4 Chapter I: Origin and Early Life — 62 parts
- c5 Chapter II: Conquests and Chronology — 106 parts
- c6 Chapter III: Administration: Ideals: Divisions — 38 parts
- c7 Chapter IV: The King — 118 parts
- c8 Chapter V: Ministers: Rules of Service — 24 parts
- c9 Chapter VI: Administrative Departments and Officers — 276 parts
- c10 Chapter VII: Land-System and Rural Administration — 56 parts
- c11 Chapter VIII: Municipal Administration — 76 parts
- c12 Chapter IX: Law — 7 parts
- c13 Chapter X: The Army — 24 parts
- c14 Chapter XI: Social Conditions — 103 parts
- c15 Chapter XII: Economic Conditions — 192 parts
- c16 Key to Plates Showing Typical Maurya Punch-Marked Coins — 2 parts
- c17 Appendix I: Chāṇakya and Chandragupta Traditions (From Buddhist Sources) — 14 parts
- c18 Appendix II: Chāṇakya and Chandragupta Traditions (From Jaina Sources) — 16 parts
- c19 Appendix III: Parallelism Between Asoka’s Edicts and Kauṭilya’s Arthaśāstra — 19 parts
- c20 Index of Names — 123 parts
- c21 Index of Technical Terms — 50 parts