Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.t4.146
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c5.t4.146
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It is also interesting to note in this connection that there grew up some market-towns (*nigamagāmas*)¹⁴ “which served as centres of trade in a locality as the name implies and were the natural corollary of the specialized industries of the villages” noticed before.¹⁵ They sometimes grew up at the entrances of great cities like Mithilā.¹⁶