Kauṭilya's Saptāṁga: The Seven Limbs of the State
The Mantri-Pariṣhad: Why No King Ruled Alone
Three Rulers on One Rock: The Junagadh Inscription
What the Junagadh Rock Teaches Us about Inscriptions
How the Early Empires Were Administered
Inside Pataliputra, and What an Empire Is: Imperium, Samraj and the Tributary
The Six Features of an Empire
Why Magadha Rose: Land, Timber, Elephants and Iron, and the Siege Panel of Fig. 5.6
Surplus, the Ganga and Son, and the Nandas: Mahapadma's Coin (Fig. 5.7) and Panini (Fig. 5.8)
The Story of Kautilya, and Two Maps: the Nanda Empire (Fig. 5.12) and the Maurya Empire (Fig. 5.13)
Chandragupta Takes Magadha, Defeats the Satraps, and Hosts Megasthenes (Fig. 5.14)
Kautilya's Saptanga (Fig. 5.15), and Why the Countryside Comes First
The King Who Chose Peace: Ashoka, the Kalinga War, and Fig. 5.16
The Great Communicator: Edicts on Rock and Pillar, Prakrit and Brahmi (Fig. 5.17)
Devanampiya Piyadasi: What Ashoka Claimed to Have Done (Fig. 5.18)
What Dharma Means, and the Edict Instructing the City Magistrates
After Ashoka, and Life in the Mauryan Period: the Sohagaura Plate (Fig. 5.19) and the Sarnath Capital (Fig. 5.20)
Some Contributions of the Mauryas: Life and People (Figs. 5.21 to 5.25), Art and Architecture (Figs. 5.26, 5.27)
The National Emblem, the Coins of Fig. 5.29, and The Fragile Nature of Empires (Fig. 5.30)
Agriculture and Land Revenue: The Mauryan System and After
Looking Back: State, Empire and Administration
Sources of Mauryan History: Arthashastra, Indica, Edicts and Coins