Local Government in Ancient India c9.83

c9.83

¹ It should be noted in this connexion that along with the aforesaid crafts, manufactures, or professions, there are certain articles or commodities, the trade in which is absolutely forbidden to a Brāhmaṇa. Thus *Manu*, X. 86–94, specifies among others the following articles: condiments, cooked food, stones, cattle, dyed cloth, cloth of hemp, flax or wool, meat, poison, milk, ghee, oil, perfumes, honey, indigo, lac, sugar, birds, wines, wild animals, weapons, water, &c. Parallel specifications are also contained in *Gautama*, VII. 9–20; *Āpastamba*, I, 7, 20, 12–13; *Baudhāyana*, II. 1, 2, 27; *Vasiṣṭha*, II, 24–32; *Viṣṇu*, LIV, 17–21; *Nārada*, I. 61–6; and *Yājñavalkya*, III. 36–40.