The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c16.21

c16.21

In individual branches of the tradesmen's profession, their small stability may be the reason why we don't read anything of a close organisation; thus, nowhere is mention made of an organisation of sea-faring traders. Also the more frequently-mentioned tradesmen who cry out their wares in the streets of the city—a pedlar dealing in pots and pans (Kacchapaṭavāṇija I. 111) sells his goods with the cry "Buy waterpots, buy waterpots"—or go about the land (II. 109) with a donkey on which they place their wares, can hardly have enjoyed the privilege which the membership of a guild conferred.