[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) › c19.6 # Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c19.6 Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c19.6 - **Language:** English ### [c19.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.6) | \*Asoka's Edicts.\* | \*Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra\* | | and fruits in RE. II. | seeds of useful and medicinal plants by exempting such import from tolls. | | 9. \*Dbādasa--vasābhisitena\* \[RE. III\]: the dates given in the Edicts are all counted from Asoka's coronation. | 9. Kauṭilya \[II. 6\] also applies the term \*rājavarsha\* to the year counted from the king's coronation. | | 10. \*Yuktas\* \[RE. III and elsewhere\] and \*Purushas\* \[PE. I, IV and VII\] indicative of Government servants. | 10. Kauṭilya also uses the terms \*yukta\*, \*upayukta\* and \*purusha\* for Government servants \[II. 5\] and also the terms \*yogapurusha\* \[I. 21; V. 2\] or \*yugyapurusha\* \[VII. 4\] in the sense of employees. \[A commentator explains the term \*upayukta\* as an officer placed above the \*yuktas\* (\*yuktānām upari niyuktah\*)\]. | | 11. \*Rājūke\* \[Girnar RE. III\] or \*Rajuke\* (Mansehra). | 11. Kauṭilya \[II. 6\] uses the expression \*rajjū chora-rajjūścha\*. He also mentions \[IV. 13\] an officer called \*chora-rajjuka=chora-grahana-niyukta\*, \*i.e.\*, one whose duty was to apprehend thieves. | | 12. \*Aparānta\* \[RE. V\]. | 12. Kauṭilya also mentions Aparānta as the region known for its elephants \[II. 2\] and rainfall \[II. 24\]. | | 13. Reference to the \*Dharma-Mahāmātras\* giving | 13. Kauṭilya also recognises the duty of the State | - [Previous: c19.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.5) - [Next: c19.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.7) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19) ## Linked texts (2) - [Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.kautilya.1.21) — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit - [Pillar Edicts](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.asoka.pe) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.6) · Pramāṇa