Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c5.95
Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c5.95
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c5.95
Some light is thrown on the severity of Chandragupta's penal code as shaped by his minister, Chāṇakya, by the case of a learned Brahman scholar named Subandhu being condemned to servitude for life with his young son in his teens wandering away homeless to escape a similar fate. The sin of Subandhu was his astute political wisdom [*Ibid.*].