Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.347
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c5.347
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c5.347
Leather-industry was evidently progressive. The Rathakāra¹² or the cobbler manufactured quite a large variety of things. He prepared shoes of various qualities,¹³ shields of a hundred layers, leather-bags and sacks, ropes and straps and also parachutes (chatta).¹⁴ He could supply royalty with shoes richly wrought with varied thread.¹⁵