History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c24.s3.t1.1

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Experience must have made people even in the neolithic phase aware of the suitability of soil in some areas for cultivation. Originally the term ksetra signified an abode and not an agricultural field. In the early Vedic literature it signifies farm land. Urvarā was used for the fertile and anurvarā for the barren land. Kṛṣya was the arable land.