Kautilya, also known as Chanakya and Vishnugupta, wrote the Arthashastra in the second century CE though the date has not been conclusively established.
A master stategist who was well-versed in the Vedas and adept at creating intrigues and devising political stratagems, Kautilya was the man who shattered the Nanda dynasty and installed Chandragupta Maurya as the king of Magadha.
There used to be a charge for grazing! If you owned sheep or goats in the Kautilyan state, then you had to pay a price of one-sixteenth of a Pana, per day, to let your flock graze in a village.
Note: Pana is a silver coin
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