[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922) › v1.c19.s9.161 # The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c19.s9.161 The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c19.s9.161 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c19.s9.161](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.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. - [Previous: v1.c19.s9.160](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9.160) - [Next: v1.c19.s9.162](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9.162) - [Up: v1.c19.s9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9.161](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9.161) · Pramāṇa