Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c15.67

c15.67

**Grand Trunk Road.** The Greeks tell of the Royal Road leading from the North West Frontier to Pāṭaliputra, the Grand Trunk Road of those days, with a length of 10,000 stadia=about 13,000 miles. [Strabo XV. 1, 11]. We have also seen how Megasthenes refers to Government officers in charge of roads and how signboards were set up at intervals to indicate turnings and distances.