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 EOONOMI$ IN AN'CIEN INDIA 649 which were essential standard of life. Sukra is very careful for keeping up the state that the ordinary ordinary wage is to serve as the lowest minimum for Sudr&s alone, out of the four castes, that they might have no license to lead sinful lives, or for the dulleat and most unskilled laborer. was looked upon wages. ordinary skilled Hence the ordinary wage as the lowest from this is to got the the maximum "The wages enough Laborers and expert. just b&86 we normal rate of of Sudrss for food are of Their for 800 wage wages. and three wages efficiency that the and His raiment. kinds' have to Strfing laborer laborer own words are: di ,' ' or n&ry ' .., (Chapter II. 101.) "Dull, ordinary normal and maximum respectively." be ordinary, (Chs12or II. 408)!. To sum up that the ideas this enquiry, we need not remark of Sukra are exceptionally brilliant. When, on the one hand, we resli.o that "the history of economic science is strewn theories of value," and on the of economic knowledge in the have boon exceedingly slight, with the wrecks other, that the fund times of Sukra o&nno bu onhsnoo our admiration for the "preceptor of the Dsityas", who so very suggestively, though imperfectly, olabora- In short, ought long those great ted the complex theory of even in pure economic theory, to be "remembered as one prices. Sultrs o! pioneers who, even if they are not able themselves to r.os. oh the goal, nevertheless promising path in the wilderness blaze out a now of human thought and human progress."