 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.  Buddhist India - Page 262by Thomas William Rhys Davids - 1903 - 332 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Megasthenes - 1877 - 246 pages
...charge of the market, others of the city, others of the soldiers. Some superintend the rivers, measure the land, as is done in Egypt, and inspect the sluices..."The same persons have charge also of the huntsmen, and are entrusted with the power of rewarding or punishing them according to their deserts. They collect... | |
 | Megasthenes - 1877 - 246 pages
...charge of the market, others of the city, others of the soldiers. Some superintend the rivers, measure the land, as is done in Egypt, and inspect the sluices..."The same persons have charge also of the huntsmen, and are entrusted with the power of rewarding or punishing them according to their deserts. They collect... | |
 | Megasthenes, John Watson McCrindle - 1877 - 246 pages
...charge of the market, others of the city, others of the soldiers. Some superintend the rivers, measure the land, as is done in Egypt, and inspect the sluices...so that every one may have an equal supply of it. 2The same persons have charge also of the huntsmen, and are entrusted with the power of rewarding orpunishing... | |
 | Romesh Chunder Dutt - 1889 - 368 pages
...forests, and generally the work of administration in rural tracts. " Some superintend the rivers, measure the land, as is done in Egypt, and inspect the sluices...The same persons' have charge also of the huntsmen, and are entrusted with the power of rewarding or punishing them according to their deserts. They collect... | |
 | Romesh Chunder Dutt, Vincent Arthur Smith, Stanley Lane-Poole, Sir Henry Miers Elliot, William Wilson Hunter, Sir Alfred C. Lyall - 1906 - 410 pages
...horses, the fifth of the warchariots, and the sixth of the elephants." superintend the rivers, measure the land, as is done in Egypt, and inspect the sluices...every one may have an equal supply of it. The same officers have charge also of the huntsmen, and are entrusted with the power of rewarding or punishing... | |
 | Ramananda Chatterjee - 1911 - 778 pages
...in the course of a year." — Book I. Fragment, I. And again, "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 other branches, so that every one may have an equal supply of it."— Book III. Fragment XXXIV. These... | |
 | Narendra Nath Law, Radhakumud Mookerji - 1914 - 260 pages
...in the course of a year." — Bk. I, Fragment i. And again, " 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 other branches, so that everyone may have an equal supply of it." — Bk. III, Fragment xxxiv. These... | |
 | Thakorlal Ranchhodlal Pandya - 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...every one may have an equal supply of it. The same officers have charge also of huntsmen, and are entrusted with the power of rewarding or punishing them... | |
 | Pramathanath Banerjea - 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...from the main canals into their branches, so that everyone may have an equal supply of it." 2 The Irrigation Officers of Chandragupta built a dam at... | |
 | G.A. Natesan - 1919 - 1032 pages
...Chandragupta Мяигуа, Megasthenes says (4th -century В. С ) : " Some superintend the rivers, measure the land, as is done in Egypt, and inspect the sluices...so that every one may have an equal supply of it." At one time, probably before the establishment of the Maurya autocracy, the tribal chief or the village... | |
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