Read the following passage from the Arthashastra of Kautilya, and answer the following questions:         The Superintendent of cattle should know about cattle looked after in return for a wage, tended with a tax and a fixed return, become useless and cast off, entered in the state hards by payment of a shares the total number of cattle in herds, cattle that are lost or have perished, and the total produce of milk and ghee. The cowherd, the buffaloherdsman, the milker, the churner and the hunter should look after do one hundred milch-cows, receiving a wage in cash. For, if given a wage in... Show more

Read the following passage from the Arthashastra of Kautilya, and answer the following questions:        

The Superintendent of cattle should know about cattle looked after in return for a wage, tended with a tax and a fixed return, become useless and cast off, entered in the state hards by payment of a shares the total number of cattle in herds, cattle that are lost or have perished, and the total produce of milk and ghee. The cowherd, the buffaloherdsman, the milker, the churner and the hunter should look after do one hundred milch-cows, receiving a wage in cash. For, if given a wage in milk and ghee, they might do harm to the calves. These are cattle looked after for a wage.        
One person should look after one hundred animals containing an equal number of aged cows, milch-cows, cows with young, cows with calf for this first time and heifers. He should give eight vasrakas of ghee, one pana per animal and the hide with the mark, every year. This is tending with a tax and a fixed return. Herdsmen looking after one hundred animals divided into an equal number of cows that are diseased that are crippled, that do not allow another person to milk them, that are difficult to milk and that kill their calves, should give a share appropriate to that class. These are cattle become useless and cast off.        

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