Public Administration in Ancient India c6.10

c6.10

We thus find that the ample material resources yielded by the land in the shape of crops and minerals enabled the people to develop a healthy civilisation. The rigour of the climate of the Punjab, combined with the moderately fertile quality of the soil, made the early settlers a race of valiant warriors and industrious agriculturists, and fostered the growth of a strong and manly population. But as the Āryas spread to the other parts of India, they met with a climate which was exceedingly mild and a soil which yielded rich harvests without requiring much labour; and these facts, while, on the one hand, they favoured intellectual activity, on the other, disposed the people to indolence and love of ease.