Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.52

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c5.52

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c5.52

¹² How these fields were ordinarily constructed can be gathered from a description in Mahāvagga, VII, 12, 1, where the Buddha is said to have beheld the Magadhan rice-fields divided into short-pieces (*accibaddhaṃ*) and in rows (*palibaddhaṃ*) and by outside boundaries (*mariyādābaddhaṃ*) and by cross-boundaries (*siṅghātakabaddhaṃ*) which he likened to a patchwork robe.

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Mahāvagga — Pāli