[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) › c14.26 # The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c14.26 The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c14.26 - **Language:** English ### [c14.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.26) As the shamelessness of a Brâhmaṇa is here ridiculed, so also in other passages, the greediness of the Brâhmaṇas gives the narrator a good opportunity for making fun of them. “The Brâhmaṇas are full of greed of gold” (brâhmaṇâ dhanalolâ honti, I. 425), so thinks the jackal in the Sigâla Jātaka who ventured into the town at night and when he was sleeping was taken unawares by the breaking of the day and frightened by the inability to make good his escape without being noticed. He offers a Brâhmaṇa two hundred kahāpaṇas if he can take him under his shoulders, concealed by his overcoat, out of the town. The Brâhmaṇa agrees, but is punished severely for his greed and in such a way that he cannot retaliate. - [Previous: c14.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.25) - [Next: c14.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.27) - [Up: c14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14) ## Linked texts (1) - [Jātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka.113) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.26) · Pramāṇa