Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c7.87

c7.87

Rhys Davids [*Buddhist India*, p. 262] calculates that "the number of towers allows one to every 75 yards, so that archers, in the towers, could cover the space intervening between any two. The number of gates would allow one to each 660 yards, which is quite a probable and convenient distance. The extent of the fortifications is, indeed, prodigious ... But the native records confirm the impression that then, as now, an Indian town tended to cover a vast extent. And we may accept the estimate made by Megasthenes of the size of the city wherein he dwelt."