Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.t4.150

c5.t4.150

Trade with the border was another feature in the business transaction of the day.¹⁷ “The border merchant served as a sort of entrepot. Merchants in the capital cities established relations with the merchants on the border.¹⁸ They would load their carts with local produce and give orders to men in charge to go to their correspondents on the border and exchange it for the wares in their shops,”¹ or for money.² The wares obtained at the border were probably forest produce and also possibly goods of other countries.³