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The Coming of Feudalism in Post-Maurya Times
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Disappearance of the Shreni Guilds
This expansion of the physical dimensions of the agrarian economy required
the large scale supply of various commodities to the countryside . The apparatus
of the Arthashastra type with its heavy tolls at every Janapada frontier now
became a hindrance for the essential commodity movements due to large scale
trade handled by private traders and not by the state as in Mauryan times.
The absence of a central authority after the downfall of the Mauryan empire
accounted for the absence of good and secure means of transport to all corners
of the expanding settled territory. This became an hindrance to extensive
commerce.
The Opulence of Mediaeval Architecture. Seen here is a
representation of Nandikesava - the bodyguard of Shiva-Maheshwara as
depicted at the Hoysaleshwara Temple complex at Halebid.
The only way to satisfy the village demand was for the producer-artisans to
move out of the centralized Shreni guilds and spread out into the countryside.
With the strengthening of this tendency, the urban based centralised production
units of the Mauryan period began to disintegrate . So also did the till now
cohesive Shreni guilds.
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