[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) › c19.4 # Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c19.4 Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c19.4 - **Language:** English ### [c19.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.4) | \*Aśoka's Edicts.\* | \*Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra.\* | | (\*d\*) deputed on quinquennial inspection of judicial administration, as on other duties \[Ib\]; (\*e\*) Heads of Departments as \*Dharma-Mahāmātras\*, or \*Strīadhyaksha-Mahāmātras\* \[RE. XII\]; (\*f\*) Directors of different religious sects \[RE. V; PE. VII; MPE\]; and (\*g\*) Members of the \*Mantriparishad\* to whom the king confides urgent matters \[RE. VI\]. | | | 2. \*Devānaṁpiye evaṁ āha\* (or \*āṇapayati\*) \[occurring in so many edicts\]. | 2. Both these formulae are also mentioned by Kauṭilya as appropriate for royal orders. The former is mentioned as one of the set phrases prescribed for what is called by Kauṭilya a \*prajñāpana-śāsana\* (writ of information), while \*ājñā-lekha\* (writ of command) is mentioned as a form of \*rājaśāsana\* (royal decree) \[II. 10\]. | | 3. \*Nagala-viyohālaka\* \[KRE. I\]. | 3. Kauṭilya \[I. 12\] has the expression \*Pauravyavahārika\* for one of the eighteen chief officers of the State. He has also the expression \*Puramukhya\* \[I. 16\]. | - [Previous: c19.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.3) - [Next: c19.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.5) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19) ## Linked texts (3) - [Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.kautilya.2.10) — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit - [Pillar Edicts](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.asoka.pe) - [Minor Pillar Edicts](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.asoka.mpe) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.4) · Pramāṇa