Tribes in Ancient India c61.s2.24

c61.s2.24

The Tibetan Dulva (iii, f. 80) gives the following description: ‘There were three districts in Vaiśālī. In the first district were seven thousand houses with golden towers, in the middle district were fourteen thousand houses with silver towers, and in the last district were twenty-one thousand houses with copper towers; in these lived the upper, the middle and the lower classes according to their positions.’⁶