Chandragupta Maurya was a great conqueror and an able empire-builder. Also, he was one of the strongest administrators in the history of India saw.
The earlier kings before the Maurya era ruled over small kingdoms. Chandragupta ruled over a vast empire. The empire contained many types of people with different social customs and usages.
Historian Meganthes says, ''The care of the royal person is entrusted to women when he goes out to hunt, it is a kind of Bacchic procession, surrounded by women who form a circle, some of the women are in chariots, some on horseback, some on elephants, fully armed as in war.''