The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c18.35

c18.35

Akin to the veṇas, so far as their work is concerned, and treated as contemptuously as these, are the two artisans appearing in the Takkâriya Jâtaka (IV. 251), namely, the basket-maker (naḷakâra) and the flute-maker (veḷukâra); the latter, the veḷukâra or veṇukâra, is, as we saw above (p. 86, Footnote), reckoned in the Lalita Vistara among the castes in which a Bodhisatta is not re-born.