The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c12.48

c12.48

¹ This honour however, was not always shown, as the Gahapati Jâtaka shows: the *gâmabhojaka* who has committed adultery, is held by the hair by the husband, flung upon the floor of the house, and while he protests loudly against this, crying "I am the village superintendent" (*gâmabhojako'mhi* II. 135) is beaten to a jelly and driven out of the house.