Local Government in Ancient India c9.86

c9.86

In the Buddhist books the craft-guilds were organized under a head called *pamukha* or *jeṭṭhaka* but there is one instance, as we have already seen, of all the guilds having a common chief, who was also lord of the treasury in the kingdom of Kāsi. The centralization in this case was perhaps due to quarrels between the foremen of the subordinate guilds such as those at Sāvatthi mentioned in *Jāt.* II. 12. 52.