Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c21.11

c21.11

At the commencement of the rains, he says, the paddy-field, after being well ploughed with the common plough, is sown by the drill plough, and left to the natural rains till it gets into ear, and it is then, and not till then, flooded by art; so there is not only a great saving of labour, but of water, which in years when the rains are scanty, is a more material saving, than even that of labour.