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Before this, they had already settled in several fertile locations of the areas of the Magadha.

Ultimately, the heritage city of Gaya, in several senses, emerged as the " capital city " of all the Mahuri Vaisya people.

From the early 20th Century, several mahuri families migrated to the places located in the present day states of the West Bengal and Orissa.

By the end of the last century, the dynamism of the Mahuri Vaishya took them to several parts of India, particularly to the metropolitan cities of Calcutta, New Delhi and Mumbai.

Now, Mahuri Vaisya families may be found, albeit in a very small number, in almost all the time zones across the globe.

A number of them have also shed their traditional vocation of trade and commerce, and are engaged in a variety of other professions.