Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c10.5

c10.5

The villages are to be separated by well-defined boundaries such as river, hill, forest, shrubs (*grishṭi*), valley (*darī*), embankments (*setubandha*) and trees like *śālmalī*, *śamī*, or *vaṭa*. The villages should not be too far apart. They should be within a *krośa* or two of each other, so as to be able to protect each other (*anyonyāraksham*) [II. 1].