[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897) › c8.100.2 # The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c8.100.2 The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c8.100.2 - **Language:** English ### [c8.100.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c8.100.2) The Sâkya princes, very little inclined, on the one hand, to fulfil his desire,¹ and on the other hand, fearing the wrath of the king, to whom they stand in a dependent relationship, resolve, on the advice of Mahânâma, to send him his daughter, the Vâsabhakhattiyâ, who, on her mother’s side is born of a slave but had a khattiya for her father. The messengers are deceived—in the manner already mentioned—by a stratagem and bring the daughter of Mahânâma to their king who makes her his principal consort (aggamahesî) and gets a son by her. This son wants, when he grows up, to see the family of his grandfather (maternal) and takes from his mother who tries in vain to dissuade him, a letter to Kapilavatthu in which she asks her kinsmen not to notice any difference in point of birth between themselves and her son. What is feared happens, however, although things begin very well: He is taken to the audience hall and placed before his kinsmen. "This," people say to him, "my dear, is your grandfather, this your uncle." He goes round, accosting everybody with reverence, wonders why whilst he gets pain in the back through continuous bowing, he sees nobody who bows to him. But the Sâkiyas want to clear his doubts and explain to him, "The young princes, my dear, have gone to the country" and heap courtesies upon him. A few days later, he goes away in great pomp. - [Previous: c8.100.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c8.100.1) - [Next: c8.100.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c8.100.3) - [Up: c8.100](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c8.100) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c8.100.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c8.100.2) · Pramāṇa