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On some points relating to the Maurya Administrative System

By Suniti Kumar Chatterji

Vol. 6 · No. 4December - 1930pp. 614–628English
Mauryan Administrative SystemAncient Indian Governance

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  • “The significance of PE. IV In Hindu Polity (Pt 14, p. 1430.) Mr. K. P. Jayasawal claimes to have disoovered on the npasis of the combined evidence of Agoka’s inscription and the Divyavadana’ a concrete instance of-the high constitutional position -of the council of ministers 10 Ancient India.”
  • “We thus find in other inscriptions written or engraved 10: the same year thatt Adoka claims his officials to be confo'rmiug 80 118 precepts (PE, 1), that he 18 attending to the welfare 008 only of his relatives bat of all classes (PE. VI) and, most important of all, that he has ordered (@napitié) the rajukas to preach the Diarma (PE. ૪11).”
  • “The Lajukas must obey 000. They will also ૦06) the agents who know (my) wishes’.”

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  1. Hindu Polity, Pt 14, p. 1430
  2. The Origin and Developinent of the Bengali Language, pp. 1041-2
  3. Hindu Polity, p. 145
  4. Ep. Ind., vol. 11, [2 253]
  5. Senart, Les Inscriptions de Piyadass, 11, p. 42

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