The Mauryan Polity c13.s12.134

c13.s12.134

(*f*) With regard to the officials of the city,² says Megasthenes:—"Those who have charge of the city are divided into six bodies of five each. The members of the first look after everything relating to the industrial arts. Those of the second attend to the entertainment of foreigners. To those they assign lodgings and they keep watch over their modes of life by means of those persons whom they give to them for assistants. They escort them on the way when they leave the country or in the event of their dying, forward their property to their relatives. They take care of them when they are sick and if they die, bury them."³