Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.55
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c5.55
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c5.55
Scarcity owing to drought or to floods is often referred to;¹ "In days of famine and drought," says the Vessantara Jātaka,² "corn did not grow and so men being unable to live used robbery : tormented by want, poor people would gather at the king's courtyard and upbraid him." And the gāthā:
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- Jātaka — Pāli