Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.s7.28
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.s7.28
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The merchants who returned to their country with valuable goods sometimes practised fraud in order to avoid payment of the royal taxes. The Rāyapaseniya refers to the traders in aṅka jewel, conch-shells or ivory, who did not take the regular highway but always took to the more difficult routes in order to escape the taxes.⁵⁰ We hear of the king of Bennāyaḍa who detected the trick of a deceitful merchant and put him under arrest.⁵¹