 | Megasthenes, John Watson McCrindle - India - 1877 - 246 pages
...great officers of state, some have charge of the market, others of the city, others of the soldiers. Some superintend the rivers, measure the land, as...from the main canals into their branches, so that every one may have an equal supply of it. "The same persons have charge also of the huntsmen, and are... | |
 | Megasthenes - India - 1877 - 246 pages
...great officers of state, some have charge of the market, others of the city, others of the soldiers. Some superintend the rivers, measure the land, as...from the main canals into their branches, so that every one may have an equal supply of it. "The same persons have charge also of the huntsmen, and are... | |
 | Romesh Chunder Dutt - India - 1889 - 368 pages
...superintended agriculture, irrigation, forests, and generally the work of administration in rural tracts. " Some superintend the rivers, measure the land, as...from the main canals into their branches, so that every one may have an equal supply of it. The same persons' have charge also of the huntsmen, and are... | |
 | Thomas William Rhys Davids - Buddhism - 1903 - 378 pages
...market, others of the city, others of the soldiers. Some superintend the rivers [canals ?], — measuring the land as is done in Egypt, — and inspect the...from the main canals into their branches, so that every one may have an equal supply of it. "The same persons have charge also of the huntsmen [surely... | |
 | Romesh Chunder Dutt, Vincent Arthur Smith, Stanley Lane-Poole, Sir Henry Miers Elliot, William Wilson Hunter, Sir Alfred C. Lyall - India - 1906 - 410 pages
...footsoldiers, the fourth of the horses, the fifth of the warchariots, and the sixth of the elephants." superintend the rivers, measure the land, as is done...from the main canals into their branches, so that every one may have an equal supply of it. The same officers have charge also of the huntsmen, and are... | |
 | Ramananda Chatterjee - India - 1911 - 778 pages
...irrigation and consequently bears two crops in the course of a year." — Book I. Fragment, I. And again, "Some superintend the rivers, measure the land as...by which water is let out from the main canals into other branches, so that every one may have an equal supply of it."— Book III. Fragment XXXIV. These... | |
 | Narendra Nath Law, Radhakumud Mookerji - Administrative law - 1914 - 260 pages
...irrigation, and consequently bears two crops in the course of a year." — Bk. I, Fragment i. And again, " Some superintend the rivers, measure the land as is...by which water is let out from the main canals into other branches, so that everyone may have an equal supply of it." — Bk. III, Fragment xxxiv. These... | |
 | Thakorlal Ranchhodlal Pandya - Education - 1915 - 214 pages
...generally the work of administration in rural tracts. "Some superintend the rivers, measure the land, and inspect the sluices by which water is let out from the main canals into their branches, so that every one may have an equal supply of it. The same officers have charge also of huntsmen, and are entrusted... | |
 | Pramathanath Banerjea - Administrative law - 1916 - 336 pages
...lakes and tanks. Megasthenes says : " Some Officers-of-State superintend the rivers, measure the lands, as is done in Egypt, and inspect the sluices by which...so that everyone may have an equal supply of it." 2 The Irrigation Officers of Chandragupta built a dam at Girnar, and thus formed the great Sudarsana... | |
 | G.A. Natesan - India - 1919 - 1032 pages
...the public administration of Chandragupta Мяигуа, Megasthenes says (4th -century В. С ) : " Some superintend the rivers, measure the land, as...from the main canals into their branches, so that every one may have an equal supply of it." At one time, probably before the establishment of the Maurya... | |
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Some superintend the rivers, measure the land, as is done in Egypt, and inspect the sluices by which water is let out from the main canals into their branches, so that every one may have an equal supply of it. 
