Arthashastra

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यच् च अग्राद् आयस्य अन्तर पर्णे नीव्यां वर्धेत व्ययस्य वा यत् परिहापयेत्, तद् अष्ट गुणम् अध्यक्षं दापयेत् ॥

By how much the superintendent of a department augments the net total of its revenue either by increasing any one of the items of its receipts or by decreasing anyone of the items of expenditure, he shall be rewarded eight times that amount.

english translation

yac ca agrAd Ayasya antara parNe nIvyAM vardheta vyayasya vA yat parihApayet, tad aSTa guNam adhyakSaM dApayet ॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript