The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c19.s9.161

v1.c19.s9.161

Some trade-names, on the other hand, are as comprehensive as our ‘smith.’ As with us, this word (*kammāra*) might be applied to a worker in any metal. *Vaḍḍhaki*, again, apparently covered all kinds of woodcraft including shipbuilding, cartmaking³, and architecture⁴, *thapati*, *tacchaka* (lit. planer), and *bhamakāra* or turner being occupied with special modes of woodwork⁵. A settlement of *vaḍḍhakis* is able to make both furniture and seagoing ships⁶. Once more the same worker in stone (*pāsāṇa-koṭṭaka*) builds houses with the ruined material of a former *gāma*, and also hollows a cavity in a crystal as a cage for a mouse⁷.