The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c12.38

c12.38

Likewise only occasionally do we find the keeper of the king’s purse, the heraññika, (III. 193) and the superintendent of the king’s storehouse, bhaṇḍágárika (IV. 43; V. 123) mentioned. The rare mention of these two officers does not, however, justify the supposition that they held an unimportant position in the Court; the bhaṇḍágárika, at least, seems, according to the Nigrodha Jâtaka, where Pottika, the tailor’s son, predicts to his friends that on the next day, one of them would be king, another senápati, he himself bhaṇḍágárika, to have played no unimportant part in public life, especially, in trade matters; for it is said at the end that the king makes Pottika who refuses to accept the office of senápati, a superintendent of stores and that the latter “is worthy of the regard of all guilds” (sabbaseṇīnam vicáraṇáraham bhaṇḍágárikaṭṭhánam, IV. 43).