Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c14.81

c14.81

Next, there are “the traders who vend wares, and artisans who are employed in bodily labour. Of these, some are armourers, who fabricate the weapons of war. Some are ship-builders, some are sailors employed in the navigation of rivers. They receive wages and victuals from the king, for whom alone they work. They also make the implements which husbandmen and others find useful in their different callings.”