Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.s22.12
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.s22.12
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The middle class people too lived a life of ease, and indulged in charities, and made gifts to the order. The hardest lot was those of poor people who earned their daily wages and with great difficulty could make their both ends meet. The poor labourers often suffered from the hands of money-lenders for whom they had to work as slaves for the non-payment of the debts.