Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c15.65

c15.65

We have already referred to the rural police. But every village was directly guarded against thieves (*taskara*) by the hunters and keepers of dogs (*lubdhaka-śvagaṇinaḥ*) already mentioned, whose method of dealing with them was to collect people by sounding alarm by conch shell or drum from a height, hill, or tree, unperceived, or by running fast to give information to the village [II. 34].