Tribes in Ancient India c32.144

c32.144

As we may gather from the various accounts, there were many merchants at Sāvatthī. They used to go to Videha with cartloads of merchandise to sell there, and take Videhan commodities in exchange.¹³ Some merchants of Sāvatthī went to Suvarṇabhūmi in a ship,¹⁴ and others went to the northern regions (Uttarāpatha), taking with them 500 cartloads of merchandise.¹⁵