[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897) › c14.169 # The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c14.169 The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c14.169 - **Language:** English ### [c14.169](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.169) The big Brâhmaṇa landowners have their fields cultivated by their slaves or by day-labourers. Of a \*kassakabrâhmaṇa\* who is in possession of 1,000 karîsas¹ it is narrated that he goes with his men to the field and supervises their ploughing (III. 293). The Brâhmaṇa mentioned in the Sâlikedâra Jâtaka (IV. 276) possesses likewise a field of 1,000 karîsas on which he has sown rice. When the crop is cut, he makes the hedge thick and places his own men (\*attano purisâ\*) to guard one-half of his property by assigning fifty karīsas to one, sixty to another, while the remaining five hundred karīsas he puts in charge of a hired labourer (bhataka) who is punished for every loss. - [Previous: c14.168](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.168) - [Next: c14.170](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.170) - [Up: c14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14) ## Cites (1) - [Jātakatthavaṇṇanā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka!jatakatthavannana*cst.6.2.3.93_18) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.169](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.169) · Pramāṇa