[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) › c19.18 # Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c19.18 Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c19.18 - **Language:** English ### [c19.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.18) | \*Asoka's Edicts.\* | \*Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra.\* | | | merit release according to Kauṭilya \[\*Ib.\*\]. | | 33. Asoka's concern for the \*Ajīvikas\* as expressed in PE. VII and also in the grant to them of the cave-dwellings. | 33. Kauṭilya \[III. 20\] shows his Brahmanical prejudice against them by branding them along with the Buddhists (\*Śākyājīvakādīn\*) as being unworthy of entertainment at any ceremony connected with the gods or ancestors (\*devapitṛikāryeshu\*). | | 34. \*Devī-Kumālānaṁ\* in PE. VII. | 34. The word \*Devī\* for queen is also used by Kauṭilya \[I. 10\], as well as the word \*Kumāra\* for a prince \[I. 20\]. | | 35. Asoka's control over the harem through his officers called \*Dharma-Mahāmātras\* and \*Strī-adhyaksha-mahāmātras\* as described in RE. V, XII and PE. VII. | 35. Kauṭilya \[I. 20\] acquaints us with the administrative arrangements for the royal harems of the day. The \*Antaḥpura\* with its inmates, the \*avarodhas\* (cf. \*orodhana\* of RE. VI), was placed under a military guard, the \*Antarvaṁśikasainya\*, and civil officers, the \*Abhyāgārikas\*, comprising both males and females, who regulated all communications between the harem and the outside world. It may be noted that Kauṭilya does not per- | - [Previous: c19.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.17) - [Next: c19.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.19) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19) ## Linked texts (2) - [Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.kautilya.3.20) — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit - [Pillar Edicts of Aśoka (Edicts I–IV) (ed. Bühler 1894)](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.asoka.pe.pe7*buhler1894) — Prakrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.18) · Pramāṇa