[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Rashtrakutas and their Times](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934) › c22.76 # The Rashtrakutas and their Times c22.76 The Rāṣṭrakūṭas and their Times c22.76 - **Language:** English ### [c22.76](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c22.76) The guilds continued to flourish in our period too. In c. 775 A.D. there was a guild of weavers at Laxmesvar, the headman of which had agreed to make a certain contribution for a certain religious object.⁵² An inscription from Mulgund, dated c. 880 A.D., records a gift by four heads of a guild belonging to 360 towns.⁵³ The precise import of this description of the guild is not easy to determine, but it looks very probable that the description is intended to indicate that its membership was spread over 360 towns and villages. The record immediately proceeds to record a gift, made by some local Brahmanas, with the consent of 2000 merchants. The context of these two passages in this inscription would suggest that these 2000 merchants were connected with the guild, or were perhaps its members. It is, therefore, not unlikely that the members of the guild were spread over 360 different localities. - [Previous: c22.75](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c22.75) - [Next: c22.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c22.77) - [Up: c22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c22) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c22.76](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c22.76) · Pramāṇa