Hindu Administrative Institutions c12.s3.67

c12.s3.67

The term seems to have been exclusively confined to the Vaiśya community which was engaged in the acquisition of wealth. This acquisition of wealth was pursued in different ways by different sets of people. Thus the vast community was divided into compartments each plying one trade or the other. It further points out that in those days the principle of co-operation was well understood and realized, and that co-operation was not communistic but communal in character.¹