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Seri Vanija Jathakaya  The Buddha  preached this Seri Vanija Jathaka when he was in  Jethawanarama  Vihara  in Savatthi  city revealing one of His previous lives as Bodhisattva Once upon a time,  our  Bodhisattva was a hawker selling fancy goods was known as Kacchaputa,   He  accompanied  another trader called Seri, a greedy man, who was trading the same items.   One day the two of them were doing  business in the city of Andhapura.  They apportioned the streets of the city  between the two of them and began selling their goods from door to door. In that city there was a rich family of nobility but now had become very poor  and the sole survivors were a young girl and her grandmother.    While the greedy trader was on his rounds, he came to the door of that very house. The girl begged her grandmother to buy her a trinket. The grandmother said ...