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Symbiotic relationships between Buddhist establishments, traders, artisan guilds, and royal support led to a close proximity of religion, economy, and polity in the Mauryan and post-Mauryan periods. Examine the statement.
- UPSC 2024
- Period of Mahajanapadas
The proposition rests on a simple but consequential fact: in early historic India, the sangha, the market, and the throne needed each other. Buddhist monasteries required steady material support that only wealthy patrons could provide; itinerant traders and artisan guilds needed physical safety, ethical trust, and a status denied to them by Brahmanical ritual hierarchy;…
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- Royal Patronage and the Politics of Dhamma
- Monasteries as Nodes of Commercial Life
- Guilds, Setthis, and the Purchase of Status
- The Triangular Circuit
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