[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922) › v1.c19.s9.320 # The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c19.s9.320 The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c19.s9.320 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c19.s9.320](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9.320) Instances of price-haggling are not rare⁵, and we have already noticed the dealer’s sense of the wear and tear of it⁶, and a case of that more developed competition which we know as ‘dealing in futures’⁷. The outlay in this case, for a carriage, a pavilion at the Benares docks, men (\*purisā\*), and ushers (\*pātihārā\*), must have cut deep into his last profit of 1,000 coins, but he was 20,000 per cent. to the good as the result of it! After this the profit of 200 and 400 per cent. reaped by other traders⁸ falls a little flat, and such economic thrills only revive when we consider the well-known story of the fancy price obtained by Prince Jeta for his grove near Sāvatthī from the pious merchant Anāthapiṇḍika, limited only by the number of coins (metal uncertain) required to cover the soil⁹. - [Previous: v1.c19.s9.319](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9.319) - [Next: v1.c19.s9.321](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9.321) - [Up: v1.c19.s9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9.320](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9.320) · Pramāṇa