[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) › c9.246 # Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c9.246 Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c9.246 - **Language:** English ### [c9.246](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c9.246) \*\*Free Drinking.\*\* Drinking, however, was permitted free and outside the licensed liquor-shops on occasions of festivals (\*utsava-vasantādi-utsaveshu\*), social gatherings (\*samāja-bandhujana-melaneshu\*) and religious worship (\*yātrā ishṭadevatāpūjā\*), for a period of four days. But if this limit of licence was exceeded, the Excise Superintendent was to impose a daily fine on those who would drink beyond that time (lest 'as workmen, they cause loss of work'). - [Previous: c9.245](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c9.245) - [Next: c9.247](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c9.247) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c9.246](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1943.c9.246) · Pramāṇa