Theory of Government in Ancient India (Post-Vedic) c8.s5.30

c8.s5.30

Kautalya seems to have realised that the working of his huge governmental machine with its stupendous activity depended in no small measure on facilities of communication. He subjects roads and paths to a minute classification, adopting two bases of division—the destination and the kind of traffic borne. The Râjamârga or the king’s highway, was thirty-two feet in width. Three such roads generally crossed a city from east to west, and three others from north to south. The Rathyâ or the