4. To keep herds of cattle, to bestow largesses, to sacrifice, to read the scripture, to carry on trade, to lend at interest, and to cultivate land, are prescribed or permitted to a vaisya.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
It is indispensable in the marriage ceremonies of the caste of vaisya, among whom it is customary for the groom to wear on his wrists in the form of bracelets, strings of this fruit combined with that of Randia dumetorum.
"The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines"
T. H. Pardo de Tavera
By birth he was of the same vaisya caste as Lona.
"The-Darrow-Enigma"
Severy, Melvin Linwood