Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c11.65

c11.65

According to Strabo, these duties of the town officials were discharged by Boards of Five numbering six Boards in all. As F. W. Thomas points out [*Camb. Hist.*, I 489]: "No doubt, the system varied from place to place, and it may have differed according as the city was capital or provincial, subject to a sovereign or independent. We may think of the difference between a royal borough and a free town in our own middle ages."