Tribes in Ancient India c75.19

c75.19

Erakaccha, a town in the Dasaṇṇa (= Daśārṇa) country, is referred to in Pāli literature. We read in the Petavatthu and Commentary of a certain merchant of Erakaccha, and of the miseries which he suffered through lack of faith in the Buddha.¹⁰ We are told¹¹ that the Therī Isidāsī was once reborn at Erakaccha as a wealthy craftsman, a worker in gold. Dasaṇṇa was apparently a centre of the art of sword-making.¹ It is mentioned in the *Mahāvastu*² as one of the sixteen *Mahājanapadas*. We also read in the *Mahāvastu* that the Buddha distributed knowledge among the Daśārṇas who built a vihāra for him.³