Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c14.85

c14.85

**Councillors.** The seventh caste is made up of what are called the Councillors and Assessors who "deliberate on public affairs, to whom belong the highest posts of Government, the Tribunals of justice, the Advisers of the king, the Treasurers of the State, the Generals of the Army, the Chief Magistrates."