The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c17.10

c17.10

Besides the men who had to look to the daily needs of the king and his Court, a whole army of skilled men of every kind surrounded the person of the king in the courts of the powerful princes of that time. Thus, we come across musicians (gandhabba I. 384; II. 250), dancers and singers (nâṭaka IV. 324; naccagîtâdisu kusalâ, II. 227); elephant tamers (haṭṭâcariya, II. 221) and archers (dhanuggaha, II. 87; V.