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SOCIAL LIFE AND ECONOMIO CONDITIONS 161
Some of the Jätakas speak of Brāhmaņas and Brāhmaṇa family of great wealth and influence (addhā, mahaddhanā, mahābhogā, mahāsälakulā). They mention some Brāhmaṇas whose wealth amounted to eighty crores (asītikoţi-dhanavibhavā).1
According to Pali scholiasts, the MahäsālaBrāhmaṇas were those who were men of substance (mahāsārā), whose hoarded wealth amounted to eighty crores. But the Mahagovinda Suttanta describes them as heads of the Vedic colleges. The Pali stock list of eminent Kosalan Brāhmaṇa Mahāsālas contained the names of Canki, Tārukkha, Pokkharasāti, Jāņussoņi, Todeyya and Lohicca. Of them, Canki was established at Opasāda," Tārukkha at Icchanankala, Pokkharasāti at Ukkatthā, Jāņussoņi at Săvatthi, Todeyya at Tudigāma and Lobicca at Salâvati. Each of them lived in a royal domain, given to him as a royal fief by king Pasenadi. Similarly we Toad of Kūţadanta who was established at -Khāņumata in Magadha and of Soņadanda who was established at Campā. They lived each in a royal domain, given to him as a royal fief by king Bimbisāra. The localities where
1 Jätaka, u, p. 272; iv, pp. 15, 22. 3°Paramatthajotild, II, p. 313. , & Digha, ü, p.
Law, Srāvasti, p. 18. 5 Law, Rājagre' p. 36; Dāgha, i, pp. 111, 127.
