The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c16.18

c16.18

¹ The business of these forest-guards (aṭavīrakkhika, II. 335) formed a profession by itself which was hereditary in the family and favoured an organisation similar to that of the guilds of tradesmen and manufacturers in this, that at the head of a number of forest-guard families there was a leader (ārakkhikajeṭṭhaka). As we have seen above, even Brāhmaṇas were driven into this profession according to the Dasabrāhmaṇa Jataka.