[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947) › c19.1859 # Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.1859 Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.1859 - **Language:** English ### [c19.1859](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c19.1859) ⁷⁶¹ \*Via Bhā\* 8 15 From time immemorial Sind has depended for its fertility on floods. Prior to 1874 the upper Sind frontier district was yearly subject to inundation. In that year a heavy flood swept away over eighty towns and villages. Then there was another heavy flood in 1892 which caused heavy damage to the country, \*Gaz. of the Province of Sind, Karachi\*, 1907. pp 5, 271. - [Previous: c19.1858](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c19.1858) - [Next: c19.1860](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c19.1860) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c19.1859](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c19.1859) · Pramāṇa