Local Government in Ancient India c9.16

c9.16

The foregoing rules bring out several important and interesting features. In the first place, there was the system of indenture under which the apprentice and the master were bound to each other for a fixed period stated in the deed. As the *Vīramitrodaya* points out, the teacher must make an agreement in this form, ‘Let this apprentice stay with me so and so long’. In the second place, the indenture emphasizes equally and fairly the obligations of both the master and the apprentice. As regards the obligations of the master, he had to adopt the apprentice as his