Essay name: Vasudevahindi (cultural history)
Author:
A. P. Jamkhedkar
Affiliation: Savitribai Phule Pune University / Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute Pune
This essay is an English study of the Vasudevahindi reflecting cultural history and traditions of the life of people in ancient and medieval India during the 6th century. The Vasudevahimdi is a romantic and religious tale that revolves around the wanderings of Vasudeva (a former Jain monk) and religious teachings in the guise of love stories, a common theme of poetry in Jainism.
Chapter 4 - Economic Conditions
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loaned on interest (va岣峝hipautta) 1. In other context
in the Vh(P), a cheating Setthi has been described to be
maintaining false accounts of income and expenditure
(aya-vvaya-pariyatti) 2. This remark is possibly in
connection with the loans given to others by him.
Traders' Ethics :
More money was probably made in business proper.
A trader's mentality is naturally not only to preserve
the money he has, but to add more to it鲁.
For this, he
not only cheated the gentry from whom he purchased the
commodities 4 but also his customers with false measures
(ku岣峚tulamana) 5. There were only a few like Carudatta
who were guided by morality 6. A shrewd trader always
preferred a bird in hand than two in the bush (labho
samdiddho samtam kaham paricca茂ssam) 7.
1. Vh(P), 145.
2. Ibid., 86.
3. Ibid., 14.
4. See the story of gamdhiyaputtas%3B Vh(P), 57.
5. Ibid., 333-340
6. Carudatta was not ready to kill a goat for the sake
of trade; Vh(P), 149.
7. Vh(P), 15.
