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 648 BALKRISHNA 1Vorl Wges--Sukra arttaches special importance to normal wages when he once more lays down in couplet $99 of Chapter IV that "Wages are to be so fixed that a worker may maintain all his special dependents". The complete lists of such to be religiously maintained ability even under adverse some twenty persons. They are counted by (III. 121-8 or Daksha 2. 35-41) as below:-- dependents "who are to the best of one's circumstances" includes Sukr& "The chaste wife, mother, step-mother, daughter, father, daughter-in-law, widowed daughter, or sister who has no offspring, aunt, brother's wife, sister of father or mother, grandfather, preceptor who has no son, father-in-law, uncles, grandson who is a minor or an orphan, brother, sister's son." (III. 121-3). Tlis fact deserves more than passing notice as it throws light upon the rate of normal wages which supply not only few .arlicles of and to so many must have been sufficiently high the bare necessities of ]fie but comfort to the worker, his family of his dependents. E1Bcicy 1!rages--Sukra has also propounded the theory that wages should be given according to the work done by laborers. to the efficiency of the rates of wages fixed by own welfare." (II. 898.) are to vary according to enunciated. From conclusion, the prevalen Sukra as the His ords are: ." According workers there should be the the king carefully for his Thus the doctrine that wages efficiency has been clearly the that the necessary standard of life principal cause foregoing .remarks we arrive at the expenses as fixed by were looked upon by of limiting wages. In other words, the ordinary wage was to be high enough to procure all those necessary things