The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c18.36

c18.36

As the work of the weaver (pesakârasippa) which represents a process similar to the twisting of bamboo and straw, so as to make mats and baskets,¹ was originally principally carried on by the aborigines, the weaver also occupied a low position in the society of ancient India: in the Bhîmasena Jâtaka, the Brahmanical archer calls the work of a weaver (tantavâya) a miserable, low work (lâmakakamma I. 356).