The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c18.30

c18.30

That these two branches of profession, the manufacture of bamboo products and the building of carriages, were assigned, even long after Buddha's time, to special races, seems to me to appear from the passage of the Suttavibhaṅga (Pācittiya II. 2.1) already quoted, where the Veṇas and Rathakāras, along with the Caṇḍālas, Nesādas and Pukkusas are called "castes" (jāti)