The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c8.60
The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c8.60
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c8.60
The two, that is to say, visit the householders, moving from house to house, sing praises of each other and speak with pride of each other, one stating that Devadatta is descended from Mahâsammata¹ and can point to an unbroken succession of princes in the royal house of Okkâka,² the other that Kokila had belonged to a northwestern Brâhmaṇa family before he was initiated (udiccabrâhmaṇakula nikkhamitvâ pabbajito).