The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c9.s2.9

c9.s2.9

to be "unexhausted like the ocean." The "increase of barley" as furnishing the material foundation of life and prosperity has further evoked from Viśvāmitra the following verse:⁵ "Unexhausted be thine attendants, unexhausted thy heaps, thy bestowers be unexhausted, thy eaters be unexhausted," says he. From food resources to population the entire gamut is embodied in this prayer of a Vedic *Ṛiṣi*.