The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c9.s2.t1.103

c9.s2.t1.103

Besides those directly concerned with administrative business, there were large numbers of other persons in the employment of the state. There seem to have been state factories in which multitudes of artisans worked. In the Sabhā Parvan, Nārada advises Yudhiṣṭhira to keep them regularly supplied with materials, to pay them regularly, to examine their work and to reward their merit.⁴