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The expression for transplanting is *ukkhayanihae* or *ukkhāyanihae* which literally means ‘uprooted and planted’ (Jain, p.122). It has been suggested that the distinction between the Vedic term *vrīhi* and the post-Vedic *śāli* is that the first is grown without transplanting, whereas the second is grown by transplantation (P.B. pp. 122,204). Greek writers refer to the practice of wet paddy production and transplantation. Aristobolus says that rice crop stands in water enclosure and is sown in beds (Majumdar, p.251). Megillus, as quoted by Strabo, mentions that rice cultivation was by transplanting (Majumdar, p.251).