The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c14.164

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¹ Besides the passages cited from the Jâtakas, we find, for example, the Brâhmaṇa agriculturist mentioned in the Sutta Nipâta (ed. Fausböll, p. 12), where it is said of the Brâhmaṇa Kasibhâradvâja, that at the time of sowing he tills his soil with 500 ploughs. In the Brâhmaṇa village (brâhmaṇagâma) which is mentioned as his place of residence, Brâhmaṇa agriculturists must have lived, just as also probably the Brâhmaṇa villages mentioned in the Jâtakas are to be looked upon as principally occupied by agriculturists. In the Sutta-vibhaṅga, Pâcittiya XIX. 1 and in the Bhikkhunivibhaṅga, Pâcittiya IX, 1. (Vinaya Piṭaka ed. Oldenberg, Vol. 4, pp. 47, 266) mention is made of the barley fields (yavakhettas) of a Brâhmaṇa.