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Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.58

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c5.58

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c5.58

In hope their fields the farmers plough and till,

Sow seeds and labour with their utmost skill;

But should some plague, or drought afflict the soil,

No harvest will they reap for all their toil."³