Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.t3.20
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c5.t3.20
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c5.t3.20
Firstly, the hereditary character of the craftsman's profession was, as already noticed,⁵ of essential importance. From his early youth, the son was apprenticed to the craft and art of his father. And the manual skill, the talent for a particular craft, was an inheritance of the family from generation to generation. But the fact of hereditariness alone is not sufficient for inferring anything like a compact union.