Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c10.4

c10.4

Settlement. There are interesting injunctions regarding the duties of the State as landlord. First, a start was made with the establishment of villages of minimum sizes of 100 and maximum 500 families. The State would settle on these villages the peoples of other regions by their assisted emigration (*paradeśāpavāhanena*) or a part of its own population by transferring it from over-populated areas (*svadeśābhishyandavamanena*).