Kautilya's Arthashastra 2.24.9
Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra 2.24.9
- Language
- Sanskrit
2.24.9
trayaḥ saptāhikā meghā aśītiḥ kaṇaśīkarāḥ /
ṣaṣṭir ātapameghānām eṣā vṛṣṭiḥ samā hitā //
Three are the clouds that continuously rain for seven days; eighty are they that pour minute drops; and sixty are they that appear with the sunshine--this is termed rainfall. Where rain, free from wind and unmingled with sunshine, falls so as to render three turns of ploughing possible, there the reaping of good harvest is certain.
Translations (1)
- Kautilya's Arthaśāstra — R. Shamasastry 1915, English
Commentaries (4)
- Pratipadapañcikā — Bhaṭṭasvāmin, Sanskrit
- Cāṇakyaṭīkā — Bhikṣu Prabhamati, Sanskrit
- Nayacandrikā — Mādhavayajvan, Sanskrit
- Śrīmūla — T. Gaṇapati Śāstrī, Sanskrit
Discussed in (2)
- History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. — Bag 1997, English
- A Concise History of Science in India — Bose et al. 1971, English