Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c8.s4.7

c8.s4.7

**Grades of Pay and Service.** The entire Civil Service was of different grades and scales of salary attaching to each grade. Kauṭilya gives an account of these grades [V. 3] which very well show the vastness and complexity of the administrative machinery that was created to look after the manifold interests and requirements of the country. Kauṭilya, however, lays down the rule of administration that its establishment charges should not exceed a fourth of total provincial revenue (*Durga-janapadaśaktyā bhṛityakarma samudayapādena sthāpayet*) [V. 3]. His account of the grades of officers in terms of salary may be thus presented: