[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v2.c19.165.3 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c19.165.3 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c19.165.3 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.165.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.165.3) 192 and Nārada¹⁶⁸ (samayasyānapākarma 2) require the king to prevent the breach of the conventions of śreṇi, naigama, pūga, vrāta, gaṇa and to confirm them in their traditional occupations. Yāj. II. 30 says that pūgas and śreṇis had authority to investigate disputes and that the pūga was a higher tribunal than the śreṇi. The Mit. on this explains that pūga is an association of people of different castes and different occupations that stay in one locality, while a śreṇi is a group of people of different castes, that subsist by the occupation of one caste and gives 'heḍābukas' 'tāmbūlikas' (betel sellers), 'kuvindas' (weavers) and 'carmakāras' (shoe-makers) as examples of śreṇis. In the Harṣa stone of Chāhamāna Vigraharāja (E. I. vol. II. p. 124) there is a reference to one \*dramma\* for each horse given to 'heḍāvīkas.' In the Nasik Inscription No. 15 (E. I. vol. VIII p. 88) we are told that in the reign of the Ābhīra king Īśvarasena 1000 kārṣāpaṇas were deposited with an association of potters as a permanent donation yielding interest, 500 with a guild of oilmen and 2000 with a guild of watermen (\*udaka-yantra-śreṇi\*) for medicines to be given to sick bhikṣus. No. 9 and No. 12 of the inscriptions at Nasik also contain reference to deposits of money with the guild of weavers. The Mathurā Brāhmī inscription of Huviṣka's reign mentions a guild of flour-makers (samitakara, vide E. I. vol. 21 p. 55 at p. 61). The Junnar Buddhist cave Inscription (A. S. W. I. vol. IV p. - [Previous: v2.c19.165.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.165.2) - [Next: v2.c19.165.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.165.4) - [Up: v2.c19.165](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.165) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.165.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.165.3) · Pramāṇa