Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.310
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c5.310
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The workers in stone were probably employed to lay foundations of buildings and parks and to build bathing ghats and flights of steps to rivers and tanks.¹³ The ordinary stone-cutter is seen building houses with the ruined material of a former gāma, and also hollowing a cavity in a crystal as a cage for a mouse.¹⁴ The master-builders—mahāvaddhakis—worked more elaborately. They levelled the ground and cut posts and spread out the measuring line.¹⁵ Here the two works—in stone and in wood—probably combined in one. The more durable buildings were built of bricks and mud (iṭṭhaka: