Administrative System of the Marathas c30.60

c30.60

Kautilya—on the council of ministers 488-489; on the official duties of a Lekhaka, 493; on the duties of superintendents of different departments, 496-497; on the construction of a capital town, 500; on the duties and responsibilities of the village headman, 510; on the duties of the examiner of coins, 513-514; on the king's taxes from villages, 516-517; on the duties of the Nagaraka (the head of the city police) 523-524; on the duties of the Gopa (village accountant), 526-527; on road cess, 534; on military cess, 534-535; on oil cess, etc., 535; on octroi duties, 539; on the encouragement of agriculture 543; on the improvement of irrigation facilities and the reclamation of waste lands, 544; on the duties of the superintendent of commerce, 546-547; on the appointment of many officers with each military unit, 549; on the system of granting pension, to minor children and widows of fallen soldiers, 550; recommends the use of brave thieves and wild tribes in war, 551; on the system of punishing the offenders' relatives, 558; on punishments for adultery, 561-562; on the rights of slaves, 565; on the rules about evidence, 568-569.