Imperial Group

The Mauiyas organized a really elaborate system of administration, We learn about it from the account of Megasthenes and the Arthasastra of Kautilya Megasthenes was a Greek ambassador despatched by Seleucus to the couTt of Chandragupta Maurya He lived within the Maurya capital of Pataliputra and wrote an account not solely of the administration of the town of Pataliputra but in addition of the Maurya empire as a complete. The account of Megasthenes doesn’t survive in full, however quotations happen within the works of a number of subsequent Greek writers These fragments have been collected and printed m the type of a e book, which throws precious mild on the administration, society and economic system of Maurya occasions,

The account of Megasthenes

The account of Megasthenes may be supplemented by the Arthasastra of Kautilya Though the Arthasastra was lastly compiled just a few centuries after the Maurya rule, a few of its books include materials that’s real and provides genuine details about the Maurya administration and economic system. On the premise of those two sources we are able to draw an image of the executive system of Chandragupta Maurya

Chandragupta Maurya was evidently an autocrat who concentrated all energy in his fingers. If we imagine in a press release of the Aithasastra, the king had set a excessive excellent He ‘acknowledged that within the happiness of his topics lay his happiness and of their troubles lay his troubles. However we have no idea how far the king acted as much as these norms. Based on Megas- thenes the king was assisted by a council whose members had been famous for knowledge. There may be nothing to indicate that their recommendation was binding on the king, however from the councillors had been chosen the excessive officers

The empire was divided into plenty of provinces, and every province was positioned underneath a prince who was a scion of the royal dynasty. The provinces had been divided into nonetheless smaller items We all know from excavations that numerous cities belonged to Maurya occasions and particular consideration needed to be paid to their administration Patahputra, Kausambi, Ujjain and Taxila had been crucial cities. The administration of Patahputra, which was the capital of the Mauryas, was carried on by six committees, every committee consisting of 5 members. These committees had been entrusted with sanitation, care of foreigners, registration of delivery and demise, regulation of weights and measures and related different capabilities. Numerous sorts of weights belonging to Maurya occasions have been discovered at a number of locations in Bihar.