Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c19.17

c19.17

| *Aśoka's Edicts.* | *Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra.* |
| | calf, the bull and the milch-cow even among the animals that did not come under the usual protected class (*vatso vṛisho dhenuśchaishām avadhyāḥ*). |
| 30. Reference to prohibition of slaughter of life on the three *Chaturmāsīs* and on the Tishya full moonday. | 30. Kauṭilya [XIII. 5] has the following corresponding prohibition: “The king should prohibit the slaughter of animals for half a month during the period of *Chāturmāsya*, for four nights on the full-moon days, and for one night to mark the date of his birth or celebrate the anniversary of his conquest.” |
| 31. ‘*Nāgavana*,’ elephant forest, as mentioned in PE. V. | 31. Kauṭilya mentions *Nāgavana* and has a chapter on *Nāgavanādhyaksha*, Superintendent of elephant forests [II, 2 and 31]. |
| 32. Reference to 25 jail deliveries in PE. V. | 32. Kauṭilya [II. 36] refers to such jail-deliveries in celebration of the king’s birthday. The prisoners to be thus occasionally liberated were selected from “the juvenile, aged, diseased and helpless (*bāla-vṛddha-vyādhita-anāthānām*).” Similar grounds of release are also mentioned in RE. V. Good conduct in jail might also |