[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) › c19.5 # Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c19.5 Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c19.5 - **Language:** English ### [c19.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.5) | \*Asoka's Edicts.\* | \*Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra.\* | | 4. In KRE. I, there is a reference to judicial torture causing death and to Asoka's intention to check such abuses. | 4. Kauṭilya also refers to the severity of judicial torture of which the arbitrary and excessive applications and abuses he makes penal \[IV. 8; 9; 11\]. | | 5. \*Nikhāmayisa hedisameva vagam\* \[KRE. I\]—'depute a similar body of officers.' | 5. The word \*Varga\* is also used in the same sense by Kauṭilya \[I. 11\] (\*svaṁ svaṁ vargam\*). | | 6. \*“Te Mahamātā nikhāmisamti anusayānam”\* \[Ib\]—'these Mahāmātras would thus set out on tour.' | 6. Kauṭilya uses the word \*niryāṇa\* for the king's tour \[I. 21\]. He also refers to transfer of government servants (\*Yuktas\*) from one post to another to prevent embezzlement \[II, 9\]. Some interpret the word \*anusaṁyāna\* in the sense of 'transfer.' | | 7. \*Samāja\* \[RE. I\] of both objectionable and commendable kinds. | 7. Kauṭilya in one passage \[II. 25\] refers to \*utsava\*, \*samāja\*, and \*yātrā\* where the drinking of wine was unrestricted for 4 days. This is the objectionable kind of \*samāja\* mentioned by Asoka. Kauṭilya also mentions the commendable kind of \*samāja\* which it is the duty of the king to respect \[XIII. 5\]. | | 8. Reference to import of medicinal herbs, roots, | 8. Kauṭilya \[II. 21\] also encourages the import of | - [Previous: c19.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.4) - [Next: c19.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.6) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19) ## Linked texts (1) - [Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.kautilya.1.11) — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.5) · Pramāṇa