The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.t3.12

c11.s1.t3.12

'Like Abul Fazl's *Ayeen Akbari*, the *Arthaśāstra* may be looked upon as the *Imperial Gazetteer of India* in one of the most remarkable periods of Indian culture-history. The chapters of this monumental document are devoted exclusively to a description of the multifarious incidents of political life under Chandragupta's government as well as economic and financial topics, e.g. the working of the mines, the opening of irrigation works, the establishment of factories; the maintenance of preserves and grazing grounds, of high ways of commerce, waterways, land-routes, and other facilities for communication; the establishment of markets and stores, the construction of embankments, dams and bridges, the planting of fruit and flower trees, of medicinal plants