The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c12.19

c12.19

¹ The existence of these vohārikas = Sk. vyavahārikas, I have not found in the Jātakas; we meet them, however, in the Vinaya Piṭaka. In Mahāvagga, I. 40.3, the King Bimbisāra asks the vohārika mahāmatta what punishment he deserves who initiates a hired soldier into the religious order; in Cullavagga, VI. 4.9, they become the subject of a discussion between Anathapiṇḍika and the prince Jeta. Manifestly, we are to understand by the voharika mahāmattas “judicial officers.”