Tribes in Ancient India c50.234

c50.234

The *Divyāvadāna* contains several stories about Rājagṛha. For instance, a householder went to sea with merchandise¹³; on another occasion 500 merchants came to Rājagṛha, but could not buy merchandise as there was a festival going on at the time.¹⁴ Once a childless merchant of Rājagṛha died. The inhabitants of the town put seeds of various colours into a pot and declared that the person who was able to pick out seeds of one colour only would become the merchant (i.e. his heir).¹