Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c15.49

c15.49

Thus the State had to run its own factories and workshops for the utilization of the products of its own agricultural lands, forests, and mines, which were received and accumulated in the State ware-houses (*Koshṭhāgāra*). These accumulations were due to the system by which the dues of the State, its revenue demands, were paid not in cash (*hiraṇya*) but in kind, and called for a network of warehouses distributed throughout the country to receive these goods. Thus the Factory came in the wake of the Warehouse.