The official 'Agronomai' during Mauryan age was related with which of the following field?

1. A

   Weight and measurement

   (a) Weight and measurement. Mauryan metrology sat with other officers and with the Arthashastra’s pautava rules. Megasthenes’ agronomoi are not the weights-and-measures cadre.

2. B

   Administrative management

   (b) Administrative management. That phrase is too wide. Agronomoi had a field brief, not general secretariat charge.

3. C

   Construction of roads

   (c) Construction of roads. Megasthenes records agronomoi (agronomai) as rural officers who marked roads, set pillars and distances, and looked after countryside works. Road-building and road-care are the official key.

4. D

   Revenue management

   (d) Revenue management. Land revenue was the samaharta–sannidhata world in Indian sources, not the Greek agronomoi label.

Summary. Official key is (c) Construction of roads. In Indica the agronomoi supervise the countryside, including roads, milestones and related public works. Weights, general administration and revenue each belong to other Mauryan titles. The Greek term is therefore keyed to roads, not to the treasury.