[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.raychaudhuri-1923) › c19.s2.8 # Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c19.s2.8 Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c19.s2.8 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.raychaudhuri-1923.c19.s2.8) ¹ \*Kuṭumba\* means ‘a household’, ‘a family’ and \*avara-kuṭuba\* may be taken to mean ‘households or families of the lowly’. The use of the word \*kuṭuba\* may suggest that the ‘lowly’ order or orders, whose families or households are referred to, are the traders and agriculturists (\*kuṭumbika\*). - [Previous: c19.s2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.raychaudhuri-1923.c19.s2.7) - [Next: c19.s2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.raychaudhuri-1923.c19.s2.9) - [Up: c19.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.raychaudhuri-1923.c19.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.raychaudhuri-1923.c19.s2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.raychaudhuri-1923.c19.s2.8) · Pramāṇa