The correct answer is A) an administrative unit.
The Mauryan bureaucracy was an administrative unit.
The Mauryan Empire was so vast that their rulers had to decide the best way to keep the empire under control and they came up with a bureaucratic form of administration. This dynasty existed in India from the 3rd to the 4th century. The bureaucratic form of government they established served to control every aspect of the social life in the Empire. Pataliputra was the capital city and the center of the Indian bureaucracy.
