[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) › c19.7 # Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c19.7 Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c19.7 - **Language:** English ### [c19.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.7) | \*Aśoka's Edicts.\* | \*Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra\* | | State help to the destitute and infirm by age (\*anātheshu vriddheshu\*) \[RE. V\]. | to maintain the orphan, decrepit, diseased, afflicted and destitute \[II. 1\]. | | 14. Reference to unjust imprisonment (\*bandhana\*), execution (\*vadha\*) and torture (\*palibodha\*) of prisoners and to Aśoka's measures for checking such abuses in RE. X. | 14. Kauṭilya also \[IV. 9\] mentions such abuses as (\*a\*) confining persons without reason (\*saṁruddhalamanākhyāya\*), (\*b\*) putting them to unjust torture (\*karmakārayataḥ\*), (\*c\*) molesting them (\*parikleśayataḥ\*) and (\*d\*) causing their deaths (\*ghnataḥ\*). | | 15. Reference in RE. VI to Aśoka's readiness for public business at all hours, even when he is eating (\*bhumjamānasa\*), or in the harem (\*orodhanamhi\*), or inner apartments, or ranches (\*vachamhi\*), or parks (\*uyānesu\*). | 15. The list of king's duties mentioned by Kauṭilya agrees with what is suggested here. \*E.g.\*, the \*orodhana\* of the Edict corresponds to \*śayīta\* of Kauṭilya; \*bhumjāmanasa\* to \*snānabhojana\*; \*uyanesu\* to \*svairavihāra\*; while as regards \*vraja\*, Kauṭilya refers to the king's duty of inspecting the horses, elephants, chariots and infantry as well as his livestock \[I. 19\]. In II. 6, Kauṭilya uses the term \*vraja\* of the Edict to include cows, buffaloes, goats, sheep, asses, camels, horses and mules. Lastly, as the Edict refers to the king going to his \*udyāna\* for pleasure, Kauṭilya \[II. 2\] | - [Previous: c19.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.6) - [Next: c19.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.8) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19) ## Linked texts (1) - [Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.kautilya.1.19) — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.7) · Pramāṇa