[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Local Government in Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1919) › c9.83 # Local Government in Ancient India c9.83 Local Government in Ancient India c9.83 - **Language:** English ### [c9.83](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1919.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. - [Previous: c9.82](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1919.c9.82) - [Next: c9.84](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1919.c9.84) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1919.c9) ## Linked texts (8) - [Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.54.17) — Viṣṇu, Sanskrit - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.10.86) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Baudhāyanadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.baudhayana.2.1) — Baudhāyana, Sanskrit - [Āpastambadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.apastamba.1.7) — Āpastamba, Sanskrit - [Vasiṣṭhadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.vasistha.2.24) — Vasiṣṭha, Sanskrit - [Yājñavalkyasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.yajnavalkya.3.36) — Yājñavalkya, Sanskrit - [Gautamadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.gautama.7.9) — Gautama (dharmasūtrakāra), Sanskrit - [Nāradasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.narada) — Nārada, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1919.c9.83](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mookerji-1919.c9.83) · Pramāṇa