[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Chandragupta Maurya and His Times](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943) › c19.17 # Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c19.17 Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c19.17 - **Language:** English ### [c19.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.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 | - [Previous: c19.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.16) - [Next: c19.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.18) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19) ## Linked texts (1) - [Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.kautilya.13.5) — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.17) · Pramāṇa