Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.t4.5
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c5.t4.5
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The Jātakas also show that loans were common.⁶ In one story,⁷ there is a tolerant tone concerning the money-lender (iṇāyika): "a patron, in enabling a huntsman to better himself, names money-lending (iṇadānaṃ), together with tillage, trade and harvesting as four honest callings." But the character of the money-lender, as profit-mongering, evading any legal or customary rate of interest, is also recognised, in as much as hypocritical ascetics are accused of practising this profession.⁸