It has been seen that the word Visha or Vaishya signified one of the people or a householder.

The name Kunbi appears to have the same sense, its older form being _kutumbika_, which is a householder or one who has a family, [51] a _pater familias_.
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The clan and the village.
It has been seen also that Visha in the plural signified clans.

The clan was the small body which lived together, and in the patriarchal stage was connected by a tie of kinship held to be derived from a common ancestor.

Thus it is likely that the clans settled down in villages, the cultivators of one village being of the same exogamous clan.