State and Government in Ancient India c15.101

c15.101

The Revenue Minister now remains to be considered. He is called *amātya* by Śukra, and bore the same title in Shivaji's cabinet ; it was his duty to have a correct inventory of villages, towns, mines and forests in the country and of the income expected from them. His office also had an accurate account of the land under cultivation, and land lying fallow, as also of the expected produce from the different mines.³ He figures rather rarely in inscriptions.⁴