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KHĀRAVELA'S ADMINISTRATION 337 either the locality or the professional designation, it cannot but mean as 'a server of the feet' viz. a servant. The term “Pādamülika' however may not have meant a menial, but only a person in the service of the king.
In this way, some official designations are come across in some of the inscriptions engraved in the caves at the Khaņdagiri-Udayagiri. But the information at hand is too meagre to work out the administrative set up of the Government.
Further, there is no information forthcoming as to whether there were any separate boards and departments like those existing during the reign of Chandragupta Maurya or that of Asoka. Nor can it be gathered if any innovations were introduced by Khāravela in the existing administrative system like those by Aśoka. As a matter of fact, Khāravela was too much preoccupied with the ideas of military campaigns and expansion of his dominions, rather his sphere of influence that he was left with little time to think of administrative changes. Moreover, Kalinga was too small a kingdom as compared with the Maurya Empire to require any elaborate administrative arrangements.
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