India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s1.39

c9.s1.39

Kauṭilya also directs that grains and other crops shall be collected as often as they are harvested. No wise man shall leave anything in the fields, not even straw (*Arth.* II.24). That the above terms refer to the barley crop is suggestive of the place of their origin being the Punjab where barley was one of the staple crops.