Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c9.2

c9.2

**Departments and Officers: Greek Accounts.** An interesting and valuable account of these is given by Megasthenes from what he had himself seen of the working of the Indian Administration under Chandragupta Maurya. E. R. Bevan, who has critically examined the Greek evidence in the original, states [*Cambridge History of India*, Vol. I, ch. XVI]: “The account which Megasthenes gave of the various officials points to a highly organised bureaucracy. They were, he said, of three kinds: (1) *Agronomoi* ‘District Officials’; (2) *Astynomoi*, ‘Town officials’; and (3) Members of the War office.