Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.t1.53
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c5.t1.53
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c5.t1.53
Slavery was quite common in those days. "The slave or servant was an adjunct in all households able to command domestic service."⁸ Both male and female slaves—*dāsa* and *dāsī*—flitter across the pages of the *Jātaka* stories They were, for the most part, household or domestic servants,⁹ who resided in the family of the master and performed all sorts of household duties.