| Another more ambitious legend derives their origin from the bania caste. |
| The bania asked what he should do with it, and Vishnu told him to make a blanket out of it for the god to sit on. |
| There is no Vaishya caste at present, but the bania caste are considered, perhaps incorrectly, to be descended from the Vaishyas. |
| They nearly all belong to the bania caste, and are engaged in moneylending and trade like other banias. |
| Once upon a time there was a town called Atpat.1 In it there lived a bania who had no son. |
| They say that once a bania was walking along the road with a cocoanut in his hand when Vishnu met him and asked him what it was. |
