Theory of Government in Ancient India (Post-Vedic) c8.96

c8.96

Meteorology. To serve as an aid to agriculture, a meteorological department was to be organised. In Kautalya, it develops a science of its own which, to the uninitiated, must have been frightening. Clouds, for example, fell into three broad species, which were further subdivided into three, eighty and sixty grades. An equally wonderful study of the weather determined the times of sowing, watering, harvesting, and so forth.³