Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t5.141
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.t5.141
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c4.t5.141
By taxes and fines the folk was crushed as it were sugar-cane in a mill,¹⁰ so much so that they could not lift up their heads.¹¹ These descriptions, with simple yet appropriate similes, are too vivid not to have a realistic background. And even to-day the cultivators’ plight is the same, if not worse.