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SOCIAL LIFE AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS (179) atı andants, turners, wreath-makers, goldsmiths; silverd..iths, workers in lead, tin, iron and brass, blacksmiths, jewellers, weavers, potters, leatherworkers, chariot and wagon-makers, ivoryworkers, rope-makers, comb-makers, spinners, basket-makers, bow, string and arrow-makers, decorators, paint-makers, dyers, washermen, tailors, money-exchangers, cloth-merchants, perfumors, grass-cutters and fodder-suppliers, fuel-suppliers, servants, sellers of leaves, fruits and roots, sellers of rice and sweetmeats, sellers of fish, moat and wine, professional actors, dancers, acrobats, magicians, ballad-reciters, corpse-burners, sweepers, venas, nesādas, courtezans, dancing girls, slave girls carrying water, and traders and merchants from various countries and places.
The hereditary craftsmen, or those who followed professional callings, such as those of architects, mechanics, carpenters, smiths, masons, ivory-workers, dyers, weavers, carriagebuilders, leather-workers, potters, jewellers, fishermen, butchers, and the rest, organised themselves into various guilds (senis, pūgas), agreeing to be governed by their own laws and customs. They funotioned either as producers, manufacturers, suppliers or sellers. There was
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1 Law, Concepts of Buddhism, p. 241. 2 Milinda, p. 331
