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¹ Meg. Frag. XXXIV (pp. 86-9)=Strabo XV, 1, 50-2 (pp. 53-5). McCrindle's translation saying that the first class of officers 'have charge of the market' is now seen to be a mistake due to the word *agroronomoi* having somehow crept into Strabo's text in the place of *agronomoi* which is obviously required by the context. Cf. Stein, *Op. cit.*, pp. 233-4. Monahan *Early History of Bengal*, pp. 160-61, traces analogies in detail between Megasthenes and Kautilya in the administrative organisation of town and country.