[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) › c19.8 # Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c19.8 Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c19.8 - **Language:** English ### [c19.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.8) | \*Asoka's Edicts.\* | \*Asoka's Edicts.\* | | | provides for \*mṛgavana\* for the king for the same pleasure. | | 16. \*Prativedakas\* are mentioned in RE. VI as officers who are to keep the king informed about the affairs of his people. | 16. Kauṭilya also speaks of the Intelligence Department of the administration manned by officers called \*Gūḍhapurushas\* \[I. 11-13\]. | | 17. \*Mukhato āñapayāmi svayaṁ dāpakaṁ\* \[RE. VI\]. | 17. Kauṭilya also mentions \[II. 7\] an officer called \*Dāpaka\* who fixes and collects the amount of taxes to be paid by the \*Dāyaka\* (taxpayer). | | 18. Mention in RE. VI of the king referring an urgent matter \[\*āchāyike\* (Girnar); \*atiyāyike\* (Kalsi, Dhauli and Jaugada)\] to the \*Mahāmātras\* and the \*Parishad\*. | 18. Kauṭilya also enjoins: "Summoning the Ministers and their Council (\*Mantriparishadam\*), the king shall speak to them on urgent matters (\*ātyāyike kārye\*) . . all urgent matters should the king attend to (\*sarvamātyayikaṁ kāryaṁ śruṇuyāt\* \[I. 15, 19\]. | | 19. '\*Nāsti hi me toso uṣṭānamhi atha samtīraṇāya va katavyamate hi me sarvalokahitam\*\| '\*Tasa ca puna esa mūle uṣṭānaṁ cha atha-saṁtīraṇā-cha\*\| '\*Nasti hi kammataraṁ sarva-loka-hitatpā . . . .\*' \[RE. VI\]. | 19. An echo of Kauṭilya \[I. 19\]; '\*Rājño hi vratamutthānaṁ . . . prajā sukhe sukhaṁ rājñaḥ prajānāṁ cha hite hitam . . .\*' "\*\*Tasmānnityotthito rājā kuryādarthānuśāsanam\| Arthasya mūlamutthānam. . . .\*\* | - [Previous: c19.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.7) - [Next: c19.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.9) - [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.c19.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.8) · Pramāṇa