[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) › c15.18 # The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c15.18 The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c15.18 - **Language:** English ### [c15.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c15.18) Just as his social rank¹ was hereditary, so also the office (seṭṭhitthâna) of the father passed as a rule on to the son (I. 231, 248; III. 475). Reborn in a seṭṭhi family, the Bodhisatta when he is grown up, sets up a household and obtains after the death of his father the position of a “representative of the commercial community” (seṭṭhikule nibbattitvā vayappatto kuṭumbaṃ saṇṭhāpetvā pitu accayena seṭṭhitthānaṃ patvā IV. 62). - [Previous: c15.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c15.17) - [Next: c15.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c15.19) - [Up: c15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c15) ## Linked texts (1) - [Jātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka.40) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c15.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c15.18) · Pramāṇa