Local Government in Ancient India c9.123

c9.123

Similarly, no. 15 of the Nāsik Series (ibid., p. 89) records how 'in order to provide medicines for the sick of the *Saṅgha* of monks, of whatever sect and origin dwelling in this monastery on mount Triraśmi, a perpetual endowment has been invested for all time to come with the guilds dwelling (at Govardhana), viz. in the hands of the guild of *Kularikas* (?=*kulāla*, *potter*), one thousand—1,000—*kārṣāpaṇas*, of the guild of *Odayantrikas* [?=*audayantrika* from *udayayantra*, i.e. workers fabricating hydraulic engines], two thousand, of the guild of . . . five hundred—500—of the guild of oilmillers (*tilapiṣaka*). . .'.