Studies in Ancient Hindu Polity (Based on the Arthashastra of Kautilya), Vol. I c10.s1.62

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The wives and children of those officers who died while on duty received allowances. Infants and aged or diseased persons related to the deceased officers were shown favour. Under pecuniary stress, the officers were given forest produce, fields, cattle, etc., along with a small amount of money.³ Indigent widows and disabled women and girls were provided with work in the weaving department of the State. Those women and girls who did not come out of their houses in strict observance of the *Pardâ* system but were compelled by poverty to work for subsistence, had their work brought within their reach daily by women servants of the weaving-house.¹