[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) › c14.76 # The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c14.76 The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c14.76 - **Language:** English ### [c14.76](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.76) 215), surrounded by a great crowd of scholars whose number is given as five hundred. The scene of their activity is cities like Benares and Takkasilâ; here they teach the Vedas and all the sciences and maintain themselves and their families, at the head of which they stand as \*grihasthas\*, on the honoraria they get from the pupils. Of other Brâhmaṇas we read that immediately after they finish their studies, they accept the homeless state and go to the Himalayas where they gather round them a host of ascetics and figure as their advisers and teachers. - [Previous: c14.75](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.75) - [Next: c14.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.77) - [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.372) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.76](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.76) · Pramāṇa