Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c15.19

c15.19

The Pali texts of the times (specially the *Jātakas*) refer to the arable land of the village divided into individual holdings which are separated from one another by channels dug for co-operative irrigation [I, 336, IV. 167; V. 412 (Fausboll ed.)]. The cultivated fields of Magadha, which were thus divided by ditches, rectangular and curvilinear, are described by the Buddha as resembling his monks' uniform, a patch-work of torn pieces of cast-off clothing [*Vinaya Texts*, II, 207-9].