The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c15.14

c15.14

The most important and aristocratic representative of the gahapati class is the seṭṭhi.¹ Although he appears to us, at least according to the Jâtakas, in the court of the king in whose service he is, we have not yet counted him among the king's officers, because he does not properly belong to the class of rájabhoggas, officers of the king, but a gahapati does²;