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- W2334088101 abstract "I. THE FIGURE OF THE MERCHANT in the literature of ancient India flits about in a somewhat twilight zone. He can claim neither the ritual sanctity of the Brahmana nor the political power of the Ksatriya but the Brahmanical law-givers are charitable enough not to dismiss him with the utter contempt they reserve for the Sfidra. They have rather mixed feelings about him. Manu, for instance, declares peremptorily that great families sink low by practising trade among other assorted degraded professions and advises that the presence of the merchant be scrupulously avoided if the ritual purity of sacrifices to the gods and the manes is to be ensured. Manu places the merchant in the company of a medley of disreputable groups such as arsonists, singers, dancers and acrobats, the ritually unclean folk, and ordains that those who undertake voyages beyond the seas (the merchant being the most numerous among them) must not be entertained at a sraddha. But he is realistic enough to concede that the merchant and his operations are essential to the society at large and exhorts the king to compel him to work in trade and money-lending adding, however, that the merchant be watched very carefully. The prices charged by him must be regulated by the state rigorously and fixed by the king once in five nights or every two weeks. A good merchant, for Manu, is one who never oversteps his humble place in ritual and social hierarchy and assiduously cultivates knowledge of his craft in the provenance, procuring and exchange of commodities and has the skill to judge dexterously the profitability or loss involved in his operations.' Kautilya, of course, is not much concerned with consideration of ritual purity or impurity. But he displays the same attitude of suspiciousness toward the merchant class. He generally dreads the possibility of accumulation of wealth" @default.
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- W2334088101 title "The Merchant in Ancient India" @default.
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