Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c9.94

c9.94

**Their Salary and Grades.** As has been stated above, the salary attached to the grade of *Adhyakshas* or Superintendents is 1000 *paṇas*. Government servants of grades (*varga*) from 100 to 1000 are to be placed under *Adhyakshas* who are empowered to fix their subsistence (*bhakta*), salary (*vetana*), emoluments (*lābha*) instructions (*ādeśa*) and assignment of work (*vikshepa*). In case there is no work for them (*avikshepe*), the *Adhyakshas* will depute their respective staffs to take charge of royal property (*rājaparigraha*), fortifications, and Law and Order in the country (*Rāshṭrarakshāvekshaṇa*). The subordinate staffs must always work under the Heads of their respective sections (*nitya-mukhyāḥ*), and will also be under the many Heads above them (*aneka-mukhyāḥ*) [V. 3].