Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c19.12

c19.12

| *Asoka's Edicts.* | *Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra.* |
| | fine the person of means not supporting his wife and children, father and mother, minor brothers or widowed sisters and daughters. Asoka is always insisting on the support of one's relations. Kauṭilya's *details* thus give a meaning to Asoka's seemingly general and pious exhortations, most of which were really of the nature of legal obligations which could not be disowned or violated with impunity. |
| 23. '*Tadatvāye ayatiye chā*' in RE. X—'in the present time and in the future.' | 23. Kauṭilya also uses the expression *tadātve cha āyatyāṁ cha* in V. 1 and 4. |
| 24. The officer called *vacha (vracha) bhūmika* in RE. XII. | 24. Some light is thrown on the meaning of this obscure and peculiar word by Kauṭilya. If *vracha* (also used in RE. VI.) is taken to be same as the word *vraja*, the expression *Vraja-bhūmīka* would mean the officer-in-charge of *Vraja*. Kauṭilya [II. 6] defines *Vraja* as a department of administration under the *Samāhartā* dealing with the live-stock of the country, comprising kine, buffaloes, goats, sheep, asses, camels, horses and mules. |