The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c15.21

c15.21

¹ Manu VIII. 40 1 sq: “He (the king) shall fix the sale price as well as the purchase price of all market commodities after carefully considering the place of their origin, their destination, the period of warehousing, the probable profit and loss. Every five days or at the expiry of a fortnight, the king shall fix the prices in the presence of experienced men.”