Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c15.28

c15.28

**Uncultivated Wastes: Forestry.** While cultivated lands were thus disposed of, the vast stretches of waste lands lying beyond the village (*akṛishyā bhūmiḥ*) were utilised fully by the plantation of pastures (*vivīta*) for the grazing of the village cattle and of forests of different kinds. First came these grazing grounds, and then the woodland retreats for Brāhmaṇas for their study of the Veda and performance of Soma sacrifices (*Brahma-Somāraṇya*) and for hermits for doing penance in their *tapovana*.