The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c12.28

c12.28

By such considerations, however characteristic they may be of thinking influenced by Buddhistic morality, an officer can hardly be guided; the scruples are represented in the narrative itself as examples of excessive conscientiousness. Rather, we have to suppose from the extremely ironical character of the Jātakas, that frequent cheatings on the part of the royal surveyors may have served as an occasion for this narrative.