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SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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'कुथास्तरणपर्यस्तदेहो " refers to the carpets meant for sitting or reclining normally made of yarns-being an article of trade.
The prince abroad on a digvijaya was required to earn tributes in the form of cash meant to be deposited in the royal exchequer after it was handed over to the officers in charge of the Royal treasury.2
The economy of the thieves depended upon the distribution of the booty they brought by the process of pilferage. This was a social crime but was a practice in the sylvan-terrains where life had its own ways decent as well as indecent.
The fishermen subsisted on the earning they received from the sale of the fish caught from the ponds where they sat bearing nets and fish-hooks.* The sylvan terrains of the out precincts of Kamarupa had Bhillapatis or the lords of the forest rcvers resorting to the bed-steads made out of the rocks where ordinary people could not dare to mount even. Their life, therefore, was harder enough to earn their bread even, because they always stood in fear of an onslaught from the enemies.
There were big towns (Bṛhatsu Nagareṣu) the smaller villages of the sabaras, the Janapadas inhabited by the handsome Arya communities, (Sundararya janapada) etc. which had their own economic growth proportionate with the population."
‘“काश्मीरमण्डलमिव विकसत्कुङ्कुमकच्छकमनीयम्"
refers to abundance of Kumkuma dye in Kāśmīra maṇḍala which could enhance its economy by taking to commercial enterprises.
3f" refers to a measure of distance i.e. one kośa.
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'क्रकचक्षतकरिदन्तक्षोद " refers to the preparation of the dust of the elephant's tusks with the implementation of a saw. The ivory industry given to the process of chiselling and sculpture was a source of income by commercial enterprises.
1. TM. Vol. III p. 48.
2. अर्पयताधिकारिणामत्र यात्किचिदर्जितं कुमारेण द्रव्यजातम् - Ibid vol. III pp. 49-50.
3. प्रतिवसति विभज्यमानतस्कारहतस्वापतैयाभिः - Ibid Vol. III p. 64.
4. प्रतिजलाशयमासीनानायवडिशहस्तकैवर्ताल्यंभिः कैश्चितः अंसावसक्तवडिशवेणुयाष्टिभिः कैश्चित् कराव-लम्वमान Reff: Ibid. Vol. III p. 64. Vol. II p. 274.
5. विपक्ष भीतभिल्लपतेरिव प्राकृतज न दुरारोहानुपलपल्कानधिशयानस्य । - Ibid Vol. III p. 68.
6. Ibid. Vol. III p. 88.
7. Ibid. Vol. III p. 89.
8. Ibid.
