The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c16.16

c16.16

Famous were also the horses of the west, above all, the steed of Sindh (sindhava. II. 288); according to the Jâtakas the kings of the eastern lands were provided mainly with horses brought from the north or the west; we meet very often in our texts with horse-merchants who come from the north (uttarāpathakā assavāṇijā) and sell their horses in Benares (I. 124; II. 31, 287).