Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.t3.23

c5.t3.23

Within the towns and cities, we see that certain streets, if not quarters, were fixed for certain artisans and tradesmen. For instance, the *dantakāra-vīthi* was the street of the Ivory-workers,⁶ the *rajaka-vīthi* that of the dyers,⁷ the *tantavitaṭṭhānam* was the weavers' place⁸ and *Surāpaṇa* was the place of the liquor-shops.¹ So were the florists'² and the perfumers' bazars.³ These instances alone however do not give us anything which may go to justify our inference that the crafts therein mentioned were organized in some form of a union.