Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.s2.8

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⁵ The Jain texts mention five crafts (sippa) which are said to have been taught by Usabha. The five artisans were potters, cloth-makers, black-smiths and barbers (ibid p 156) Only four guilds are mentioned in the Mahāummagga Jātaka (No 546), VI, p 427 the wood-workers, the smiths, the leather workers, and the painters However, in the commentary on the Jambuddīvapannatti the following eighteen corporative unions are mentioned kumbhāra (potter), pattalla (patel in Gujerat), suvaṇṇakāra (goldsmith), sūakāra (cook,), gandhava (perfumer), kāsavaga (barber), mālākāra (garland-maker), kacchakāra (vegetable-seller, kāchī in Hindī), tambolia (dealer in betel-leaf), cammayaru (leather-worker), jantapilaya (presser of oil, sugar cane etc), gañchiya (towel-seller) champāya (calico printer), kamsakāra (brazier), suaga (tailor), guāra (?), bhilla and dhīvara The first nine belonged to the category of nāiua and the last nine to that, of kārua (3 43, p 193 f); also see the list given by Majumdar, Corporative life in ancient India, p. 18 ff Also Rāmāyaṇa, II 83 12 ff.