The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c11.s1.52
The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c11.s1.52
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11. (L., 82). Mândhâtar, continuing his tour, decides not to have the fields of his kingdom any more cultivated; for the corn will rain down from heaven. The peasants do, in fact, gather up before his eyes bunches of ears of rice, which have fallen from the clouds : we expressly say bunches, and not sheaves, because in Java the rice is not cut, but gathered by hand.