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regulations and it worked for the benefit of traders. Most of the traders had their own markets and guilds. There were both craft guilds and merchants guilds. These guilds had their own rules for their respective members to follow and those, who violated them, were punished. These organizations also managed the religious affairs. Chief of Oilmen guild of Shergarh made a donation to the temple of Somnath in 1028 A.D.1 Janna, the head of guild of oilmen built a temple of Shiva and dug tank at Jhalarapatan in 1086 A.D.52 It was arranged that merchants and Shopkeepers must donate a certain part of their income to the temple of Adivaraha. Goshtikas were appointed for the looking after of the temple.53 The goshthik of Hastikundi renovated the temple of Rishabhadeva in 997 A.D. The three merchants namely Narsimha, Govarisha and Thiraditya, who constituted the town committee, jointly made a daily grant for religious purpose.54
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1. K.C. Jain, Ancient Cities and Towns of Rajasthan, p. 498. Ibid.
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Thinku Yadav, Samaraichchkaha Ek Sanskratik Addhayan, pp. 97-99.
4. Pp. 38, 427, 500, 554.
5.
Dashrath Sharma, Rajasthan Through the Ages, p. 493.
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P.C. Jain, Kuvalayamalakaha Ka Sanskrutik Addyana, p. 186. P. 8. Eds. Pt. Bhavadatta Sastri and K.N. Pandrang Prah, Bombay, 1938.
8. Ibid.
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G.N. Sharma, Rajasthan Ke Itihas Ke Srota, p. 64. Nadlais inscription (1132 A.D.). Nahar Jain Lekh Sangraha, Vol. I, p. 217.
11. Patnarayans inscription (1257 A.D.),
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G.N. Sharma, Rajasthan Ke Itihas Ke Srota, p.117.
Bijolia inscription (1170 A.D.) Epigraphia Indica, Vol. 26, pp. 90-100.
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