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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

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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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