Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.t22.26
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.t22.26
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Nurses were engaged to tend children. Five kinds of nurses are mentioned: wet-nurse (khīra), toilet-nurse, (mandana), bath-nurse (majjana), play-nurse (kīlāvaṇa) and lap-nurse (aṅka).¹⁸