Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c9.3

c9.3

**District Officials (*Agronomoi*).** “The duties of the first kind were to supervise (1) Irrigation and Land Measurement, (2) Hunting, (3) the various Industries connected with Agriculture, Forestry, work in Timber, Metal Foundries, and Mines, and they had (4) to maintain the Roads and see that at every ten *stadia*¹ (1⅛ miles) there was a mile-stone indicating the distance (this is the passage which proves that Megasthenes did not mean to assert a general ignorance of the art of writing in India.”)