Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c8.6

c8.6

“In addition to cereals, there grow throughout India much millet which is kept well watered by the profusion of river streams, and much pulse of different sorts, and rice also, as well as many other plants useful for food. It is accordingly affirmed that famine has never visited India, and that there has never been a general scarcity in the supply of nourishing food.