Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.t3.133
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c5.t3.133
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c5.t3.133
This was the general rule. But society had far advanced from the pure primitive stage. Wage-labour had come to be recognised.³ We have seen labourers (*kammakaras : bhatakas*) working for wage, for hire. The labourers were hired on the farm.⁴ They were generally paid their wages in kind.⁵ The country being mainly agricultural, demand for hired labour on the farm was necessarily little, and consequently wages were low and non-progressive. They were not at all in proportion to the work done.