The big long-service military needed to be fad by the state exchequer. We’re informed that the Nantias possessed huge wealth which should have enabled them to help the military, however now we have no clear thought of the measures by which they raised taxes from the folks. The fiscal system was established on a agency foundation. Warriors and clergymen, i.e., the kshatriyas and the brahmanas, had been exempted from cost of taxes, and the burden fell on the peasants who had been primarily vaisyas or grihapatis. Bah, a voluntary cost made by the tribesmen to their chiefs in Vedic instances, turned a obligatory cost to be made by the peasants within the age of the Buddha, and “ officers known as balisadhakas had been appointed to gather it. Evidently one-sixth of the produce was collected as tax by the king from the peasants. Taxes ware assessed and picked up by royal brokers with the assistance of village headihen. The arrival of writing could have helped the evaluation and assortment of taxes. The invention of many hoards of punch-marked cash means that cost was made in each money and type. In north-eastern India cost was made in paddy. Along with these taxes the peasants had been subjected to compelled’ labour for royal work. The start tales of the Buddha converse of instances by which peasants left the nation of the king m order to flee the oppressive burden of taxes.
Artisans and merchants additionally needed to pay taxes
Artisans and merchants additionally needed to pay taxes. Artisans had been made to work for a day in a month for the king, and the merchants needed to pay customs on the sale of their commodities. The tolls had been collected, by officers often called saul- kika or sulkadhyaksha
The kings of the interval not summoned the sabha and samitu Common – assemblies had virtually disappeareu in post-Vedic instances. Since they had been primarily tribal establishments they decayed and disappeared as tribes disintegrated into, varnas and misplaced their identification. Their place was taken by, varna and caste teams, and, so caste .legal guidelines and customs got due weight by the writers of the law-books. Nevertheless, these laws had been primarily confined to social issues. Common assemblies may succeed solely in small kingdoms the place members of the tribe may simply be summoned, as could have been the case m the Vedic interval. With the emergence of the big states of Kosala and Maga; dha it was not potential to carry,massive assemblies attended by.folks ]belonging to completely different social lessons and completely different components of the empire.’ The sheer problem of communication made common conferences, unimaginable. Additional, being tribal the outdated meeting , cou[d not ‘discover place for, many non-Vedic individuals who lived within the new kingdoms. (The modified circumstances subsequently had been npt congenial for, the continuance , of the outdated assemblies As an alternative, on this interval we hear of a small physique known as parishad consisting completely of the brahmanas. Even on this interval assemblies had been there, however not within the monarchies, They flourished within the smaller republican states of the Sakyas, Lichchhavis, and many others.
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