Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c15.4

c15.4

**The village.** Each village, besides its area under houses (*vāstu*), had its full apparatus of agricultural life in its (1) *Kedāra* or fields sown with crops, (2) *Pushpa-Vāṭa*, horticultural gardens (3) *Phala-vāṭa*, orchards (4) *Shaṇḍa*, plantations of bananas, sugar-cane and the like; and (5) *Mula-vāpa*, fields for growing roots like ginger, turmeric and the like (*ārdrakaharidrādi*). Thus grains, flowers, fruits, vegetables, spices, sugar-cane and bananas were all grown in the village. [II. 6].