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UPSC 1997: Which one of the following was a corporation of merchants in ancient India?
(a)Chaturvedi Mangalam
(b)Parishad
(c)Ashtadikgaja
(d)Manigrama
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Manigrama (also spelled Manigramam) was a well-known itinerant corporation of merchants active from the early centuries CE, attested in inscriptions and copper plates across South India and South-East Asia. The other terms listed—Chaturvedi Mangalam (a Brahmin settlement), Parishad (scholarly council) and Ashtadikgaja (court poets of Krishnadevaraya)—were not merchant guilds. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manigramam?utm_source=openai))
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