Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c10.47

c10.47

Inspectors in the guise of ascetics were set to watch the activities of cultivators, herdsmen, merchants and Heads of Government Departments (*Adhyakshas*). “In places of trees worshipped, where four roads meet, at solitary places, in the vicinity of tanks, rivers, bathing-places, at centres of pilgrimage, at hermitages, in desert-tracts, on hills, and in thick forests, Informers in the guise of veteran thieves with their followers will be set to ascertain the causes of arrival and departure, and halt, of thieves, enemies and outlaws.”