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Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c12.s3.3

Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c12.s3.3

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c12.s3.3

Besides these organised guilds, there were the manufacturers, the wandering dancers, musicians and tramps who roamed from village to village earning their bread by exhibiting skill We read of a young acrobat who exhibited his performance in the town of Dhannaura³⁵ Visvakarman is mentioned as another acrobat of Rājagaha.³⁶ Then snake-charmers³⁷ and demonologists³⁸ are mentioned in the category of itinerant jugglers