Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.s3: Rent
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.s3
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Rent
c9.s3.1
Unfortunately, we know very little as to how the principles of distribution were governed. We have seen about the rent the amount of which was chiefly based on custom. One-ninth of the share of the produce from land went to the king, and almost all the rest was available for distribution among the people.
c9.s3.2
About wages or the remuneration of labour we have seen four kinds of wage-earners, who worked either for daily wages or on contract system. The wages were paid to the workers in kind or in money, generally in the former. We are told about a cow-herd who was given one-fourth of the milk produced daily as his wages;¹⁷ another was given the whole milk of a cow or a buffalo on the eighth day.¹⁸ Share-holders were given one-half, one-fourth or one-sixth of the profit.¹⁹
c9.s3.3
¹⁷ *Brh Bhā* 2 3581. ¹⁸ *Piṇḍa Nir* 369; *cf* *Nārada* (VI 10) ¹⁹ *Jīvā* 3, p 280; *Sūya* II, 2, p 330a; *Thā* 3 128. ²⁰ *Brh. Bhā.* 1, 2690 f; 6. 6309.
Linked texts (6)
- Sūyagaḍa — Sudharman, Ardhamāgadhī Prakrit
- Ṭhāṇaṃga — Sudharman, Ardhamāgadhī Prakrit
- Nāradasmṛti — Nārada, Sanskrit
- Piṇḍanijjutti — Bhadrabāhu & Bhadrabāhu II, Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit
- Bṛhatkalpalaghubhāṣya — Saṅghadāsagaṇi Kṣamāśramaṇa, Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit
- Jīvājīvābhigama — Ardhamāgadhī Prakrit