INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Tirthas: the Highest category of officials in the administration. There were 18 Tirthas.

Detailed explanation-2: -It is a treatise on artha written about 2, 300 years ago and attributed to a person named Kautilya. It consists of 15 adhikaranas or books, mainly in prose, with 380 shlokas occurring at the end of the various chapters.

Detailed explanation-3: -Arthashastra, the book was written by Kautilya there are enumerated seven elements of the state. For the first time in the Arthashastra of Kautilya, the state is defined as consisting of seven elements: the swami, the Amatyas, the Janapada, the Durgas, the Kosha, the Danda, the Mitra, and the enemy.

Detailed explanation-4: -The structure of governmental machinery shows that Kautilya divided the work into 34 departments and each was headed by a designated officer. The administrative structure in Arthashastra depicts a bureaucratic type of administration that is hierarchical in character.

Detailed explanation-5: -Further, as noted, Artha as a concept does not refer solely to politics, military strategy, economics, animal husbandry, marriage, or any of the other subjects addressed in the fifteen books of the Arthashastra. Artha refers to the pursuit of worldly goods, personal success, stability, and social status.