Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t5.134
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.t5.134
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⁶ J., IV, p. 362-G. 235 “*Nādinne vutthahissāma gāmamhi ca vanamhica niggāhaka-samā rāja, te pi vuccanti brāhmaṇā.*” Fick, op. cit., p. 218 n., remarks, “As the tax-collectors sit down in front of the gates of the tax-payers and do not leave until the tax is collected, so the Brāhmaṇas do not cease begging till they are paid.”
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- Jātakatthavaṇṇanā — Pāli