Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.t23.2

c9.t23.2

Four kinds of wage-earners are mentioned :—(1) who were given their daily wages (*divasabhayaga*) either in kind or in money, (ii) who were specifically engaged on a journey (*jattabhayaga*), who were employed on contract system of the whole lot (*uccattabhayaga*), who were employed on daily contract basis stipulating that, if they did the contracted work, they would be paid the stipulated sum (*kabbālabhayaga*).²⁰