Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.324
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c5.324
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The carpenters also made furniture for the houses such as seats, chairs, bed-steads, chests, ladders, etc.⁷ and also toys. But they were not only cabinet-makers: they also built ships⁸ and vehicles of all sorts, carts and chariots of different kinds.⁹ They also prepared various machines (yantāni);¹⁰ the usual tools of a carpenter were hatchet, adaze, chisel and mallet among others.¹¹