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traders (Vaniks), Varanasi traders (Vaniks)2 for Ujjaini traders (Vaniks) a caravan of 700 traders (Vaniks).4 It is mentioned in the same source that the Setthis were honoured by the King, the Vaniks and the common mass. Once a Setthi was to be sentenced to death by the order of the King, at that time the Vaniks jointly moved for his balance.6 Merchants dealing in corn, vegetables (pannika), mangoes9, fruits and roots10 (phai vanik, mula vanik), pots and pans, 11 cooked food 12 (odanika), meat18, liquids, perfumes, 14 royal goods, 15 dealers in gold, (heranik), 16 yarn and textiles, 17 wood, 18 salt, 19 floured barley20 were also called or termed as vanik. The Astadhyayi also refers to the term vanik for the traders. Besides, the word Krayavikrayika was also another term for traders, 21 On the basis of references of Milindapanha it appears
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1.
Ibid., 2.294.
2. Ibid., 2.248.
3.
Ibid., 5.75.
4. Ibid., 4.136.
5. Jät., 5.382. (Raj Pujito vanik pujito nagar jan pad pujito).
6. Ibid., 6.135.
7. Jat., II. 249; V.365; 12.467; Angavijja, Chap. XXVIII.
8.
Jat., XV. 504.
9.
Ibid., 13.478.
10.
11. Jät., 3.12.
12. Arth., III.4.1-4; Angavijja, Chap. XXVIII.
Angavijja, Chap. XXVIII.
Angavijja, Chap. XXVIII.
13.
14. Arth., III.4.1-4.
15.
Ibid., III.4.1-4; Luder's List No. 1230; Angavijja Chap. XXXVIII.
16.
17.
Ibid., 11.16.8.
Luder's Dist No. 1239.
18. Angavijja, Chap. XXVIII.
19.
20.
21.
Ibid.
Ibid.; Luder's List No. 1230.
Astadhyayi, IV. 4, 13; India as Known to Panini, p. 238.
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