Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.40

c5.40

All this about the habitat, the homestead (*bhūmibhāga*).¹ Now let us take up the cultivable or arable or the agricultural land (*khetta*) proper. For, this is the land which formed the largest and the most important factor in production. And the wealth of the nation then, as always, primarily depended upon the strength of the country to produce commodities, agricultural or manufactured.