Note 3 — VI. PRINCE JĪVAKA AS THE KING OF PHYSICIANS.1

At that time there were three districts in Vaiśālī. In the first district were 7000 houses3 with golden towers, in the middle district were 14,000 houses with silver towers, and in the last district were 21,000 houses with copper towers. In these lived the upper, the middle, and the lower classes, according to their position. The people of Vaiśālī had made a law that a daughter born in the first district could marry only in the first district, not in the second or third; that one born in the middle district could marry only in the first and second; but that one born in the last district could marry in any one of the three; moreover, that no marriage was to be contracted outside Vaiśālī, and that a woman recognised as a pearl among women should not be married to any one, but should appertain to the people for common enjoyment.