Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.t4.162

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⁹ J., I, pp. 121-2. Mrs. Rhys Davids remarks: “The outlay in this case for a carriage, a pavilion at the Benares docks, men (purisā), and ushers (paṭihārā) must have cut deep into his last profit of 1000 coins, but he was 20,000 per cent to the good as the result of it! After this the profit of 200 and 400 per cent reaped by the traders (J. I. p. 109) falls a little flat.” C. H. I. I, p. 216. Such economic thrills are indeed rare in Ancient Indian literature and in life.