What were the main features of the Mauryan administration?

The brahmanical law-books again and again stressed that the kind should be guided by the laws laid down in the Dharamshastra and by the customs prevalent in the country. Ashoka promulgated dharma and appointed officials to inculcate and enforce its essentials throughout the country. Assertion of royal absOlutism was a natural culmination of the policy of military conquest adopted by the princes of Magadha. Anga, Vaishali, Kashi, Kashala, Avanti, Kalinga, etc. were annexed to the Magadhan empire on by one. The military control over these areas eventually turned into coercive control of all aspects of life of the people. In order to control all spheres of life the state had to maintain a vast bureaucracy. In no other period of ancient history we hear of so many officers as in Maurya times. Important functionaries were called tirthas. It seems that most functionaries were paid in cash: The highest functionaries were minister (mantrin), high priest (purohita), commander-in-chief (senapati) and crown-prince (yuvaraja), who were paid generously. If we rely on the Arthashastra of Kautilya it would appear that the state appointed 27 superintendents (adhayakshas) mostly to regulate the economic activities of the state. They controlled and regulated agriculture, trade and commerce, wrights and measures, crafts such as weaving and spinning, mining and so _________ ________ ___ ______ _____ ________ ___ ______ ________ ______ _______ _________.
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