History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c24.s5.25

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Even in the very early stage of the domestication of plants there was a rudimentary awareness of the crop season, the proper time for sowing the few seeds known then. This knowledge grew in course of time. A Taittirīya Saṃhitā passage (V.1.7.3) speaks of two crops a year. But, another passage in the same text (VII.2.10.2) says that barley ripened in summer being sown in winter, rice ripened in autumn being sown in the rains, while beans and sesamum ripened in winter and the cool season, implying that there were three crops.