[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) › c19.9 # Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c19.9 Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c19.9 - **Language:** English ### [c19.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.9) | \*Asoka's Edicts.\* | \*Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra.\* | | 20. Devānāmpriya Priyadarśi Rājā desires that in all places should reside people of diverse sects \[RE. VII\]. | 20. This is apparently against Kauṭilya's injunctions that "\*Pāshaṇḍas\* and \*Chaṇḍālas\* are to dwell near the cremation ground (beyond the city)" \[II. 4\]. Elsewhere \[II. 36\], Kauṭilya also rules that no \*Pāshaṇḍas\* could be accommodated in a \*Dharmaśālā\* without the permission of the city officer, \*Gopa\*, and their abodes should be searched for suspicious characters. | | 21. Reference to \*vihāra-yātrā\* and to \*mṛigayā\* and similar diversions to which Asoka's predecessors were addicted \[RE. VIII\]. | 21. Kauṭilya gives us details about these. He provides for a reserved forest for the king's \*vihāra\* \[II. 2\] and discusses fully the merits of \*mṛigayā\* \[VIII. 3\]. While Piśuna condemns it as a \*vyasana\* or indulgence chiefly for its dangers to a king, Kauṭilya approves of it as a \*vyāyāma\* or healthy physical exercise which destroys the excess of phlegm, bile, fat, and perspiration | - [Previous: c19.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.8) - [Next: c19.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.10) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19) ## Linked texts (1) - [Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.kautilya.2.4) — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c19.9) · Pramāṇa